[oilfieldtrash]

What KOmmersant has to say today.

Chubais also tied the occurrence with Gaidar to two well-publicized murders. He is convinced that “the death construct of Politkovskaya-Litvinenko-Gaidar, who has been averted only by a miracle, would be extremely attractive to supporters of an unconstitutional forcible coup d'etat in Russia,” Chubais said.

Gozman commented on Chubais's statement that “We know what the three events led to. In the West, it was a terrible blow to the image Russia and the president of Russia. That is advantageous to people who want to isolate Russia from the outside world, from the West. People who want to return to the Cold War and local hot wars and to cause disorder during that isolation. Some of those people live in our country

[struwwelpeter]

Who benefits by a resurrection of the Cold War? China? The Russian army?

About 20 years ago, during Gorby's "peaceful bear" posturing, the GRU (Soviet MI) shot a US liaison officer in East Germany. Kremlinologists went nuts trying to read between the lines on that one, and one theory was that Soviet general staff wasn't happy about "detente part two".

A few years before the USMLM officer was killed, while ex-KGB chief Andropov was trying to pass himself off as a peaceful admirer of Frank Sinatra and Johnny Walker Red, KAL 007 was shot down. That effectively ended the "peace offensive" back then. BTW: Andropov was Gorby's mentor.

But given all that, I'm ready to blame China. Or Putin. Or Barbara Streisand.

Anyone seen Hilary lately?