Discussion: Putin Critic Nikolai Glushkov Found Strangled To Death In London

I would expect any Russian ex-pat is nervous.

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And the sex worker who pee’d on the Donald in Moscow, now sleeps with the carp at the bottom of the Moscow River

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We had our offices swept for bugs every week. Fun times.

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@ncsteve’s answer is the best … but perhaps Putin also is testing the Western alliance. The candy-assed sanctions the Administration got dragged kicking and screaming into adopting this week clearly aren’t enough.

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[quote=ā€œsanni, post:6, topic:69689ā€]
Is this that second event - or yet a third incident?
[/quote]Get yer scorecards here! Can’t tell your dead Russians without a scorecard!

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The article says more than a dozen Russians have turned up dead recently in Britain. I guess Putin carries a grudge. Could it be that two scoops ran so he could have Secret Service protection?

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Yeah by my account we’re up to 16.

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The London police force said ā€œat this stage there is nothing to suggest any link to the attempted murders in Salisbury,ā€ and they said there was no evidence that Glushkov has been poisoned.


Understand why this is the official line, but that’s not really accurate is it.

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It must have been the Mayans or the Aztecs that did it. Or maybe the Ottomans. Nothing to see here.

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Putin cleaning house…

And/or sending messages…

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This was much earlier but revisited given the new case.

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The second event.

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Hey, you shouldn’t insult Fredo like that.

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must be one of those MS-13 gang guys who did the deed…

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For all intents and purposes, T rump is just wants to be a mob boss, and he happens to run a country with a massive nuclear arsenal. It’s as though Charlie Luciano is now in charge of a country with the most powerful military on earth, only T rump is subservient to Putin, who is in charge here.

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The body count is getting pretty high, no? Several publications were keeping a running tab on diplomats and former Putin critics dying under what one could only describe as . . . suspicious circumstances during and following the 2016 election cycle.

Last August, Axios ran this article:

listing ten such deaths. Seems to me I recall the number in the teens by the end of 2017.

Gary Kasparov had a chilling quote he said was commonly repeated (probably in whispers) inside Russia:

All countries have their own version of the Mob. Russia is the only country where the Mob has its own country.

I suspect the Trumpster is envious.

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I guess being a Russian diplomat is like being a drummer for Spinal Tap.

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Strangled to death? Is that like drowned to death, or killed to death?

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A message to Donnie?

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I’m sure there was nothing nefarious involved.

He probably just fell backwards out the 5 story window onto sharp, exploding, poisoned, bullets by accident.

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