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We don't need a repeat of the 1980, 1984 Olympics. The only ones who suffer are athletes. The best thing would be to keep politics out of sports and find another outlet to exact retaliation.
Its always reared its ugly head though and think always will.. sadly.
I wonder if this man and his daughter would have been shot would it have caused the same uproar..........Im sure the Russians are the experts in this sort of killing and could have done it in such a way not to cause so much attention..... if they did do it, they wanted to be found out... it was done for that purpose...
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"The chemical was identified by experts at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down."
Is's interesting, but Russian military should be involved in the analysis of this substance. It is a normal world practice. Otherwise, Russia does not recognize the results of the investigation.
P.S. And the last but not least..
Forgive me all the fans of football here, ( because I am clearly not following the events,) but wasn't there some kind of world championship planned in Moscow? This spring?
If yes, then timing of this whole event with "Novichok" makes me feel very uneasy somehow.
I mean the timing for doing something like this for Russians is highly strange.
( Unless of course Russians are not keen on seeing British fans in Moscow, and are trying to wiggle out of the whole deal in advance.)
I am sorry BNW, I don't have time right now to read the whole article on the "Russian Embassy" site, but from what I see right away in Russian Wiki regarding this particular person, is that he has been a "business partner" of Berezovsky. (The very scandalous Berezovsky, who, as the word has it, introduced Putin to Yeltsin.)
Now with THIS kind of "business partners" ( or should I say - crooks/swindlers) one will always wonder, whether it was really the *FSB* that finished him off, or one of his "business partners"?
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