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More on Glushkov @ The Daily

artappraiser — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:12:20 +0000

More on Glushkov @ The Daily Beast, 6 hrs. ago:

[....] Glushkov, 68, was granted political asylum in the U.K. after working for Russian state airline Aeroflot and Berezovsky’s car company. While living in Russia, he was sentenced to five years in jail for money laundering and fraud in 1999, as Berezovsky fell out with Vladimir Putin and fled to the U.K.In 2011, Glushkov also gave evidence to British courts that were ruling on a lawsuit Berezovsky had filed against another Russian oligarch, Roman Abramovich, who has been on good terms with the Kremlin. The judge dismissed Berezovsky’s lawsuit, and Glushkov filed a formal appeal of the case. Berezovsky was found dead in his ex-wife home's in 2013. Last year, Glushkov was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Russian court in “a trial in absentia” for allegedly stealing $123 million from the car company [....]

Another one? The cops are

artappraiser — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 19:01:35 +0000

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Another one? The cops are playing it down but they've got a tent up around the entrance of his house, scroll down for the photo @ link:

Russian emigre Nikolai Glushkov found dead in London home

By Schams Elwazer and James Masters, CNN, Updated 2:23 PM ET, Tue March 13, 2018

London (CNN)Nikolai Glushkov, a Russian businessman the UK refused to extradite to Russia on fraud charges, has died in his London home, his Russian lawyer Andrei Borovkov told the Echo Moscow radio station Tuesday.

British police confirmed they were investigating the death of a man in his 60s in southwest London, but did not identify him.

Police said the death was being treated as "unexplained," adding that the counterterrorism team would lead the investigation "as a precaution because of associations that the man is believed to have had."

"There is no evidence to suggest a link to the incident in Salisbury," police added, referring to the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.

According to the Russian Embassy in London, the UK refused to extradite Glushkov back in February 2016 on charges of large-scale fraud and embezzlement during his time as the deputy director of the Russian airline Aeroflot [....]

P.S. The current Tillerson

artappraiser — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:53:53 +0000

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P.S. The current Tillerson statement on the plane nearly contradicts what the White House presser was saying today. I didn't even bother to post that because: who cares anymore what she guesses to say? I think it's pretty clear he says whatever he thinks right, not bothering trying to please Trump.Including insulting Trump and not taking it back on Sunday TV.... I just ran across this from earlier in the month, a suggestion about how this was working before the past wild week:

McMaster caught in the middle as Mattis and Tillerson maneuver to constrain Trump on national security issues

By Brian Bennett @ LATimes.com, March 4

As President Trump appears to lurch from crisis to crisis on the world stage, Defense Secretary James N. Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have quietly maneuvered to constrain an impulsive commander in chief, the latest sign of a national security team that is increasingly challenging the president.

Officials say the two senior Cabinet officers have slow-rolled requests for options on a wide range of policy goals, including exiting the Iran nuclear disarmament deal, reacting to missile strikes into Saudi Arabia by Iran-backed rebels in Yemen, pressuring longtime ally Pakistan by cutting U.S. military aid, and possible limited airstrikes on North Korea's nuclear infrastructure.

Trump is said to blame Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, bristling when his national security advisor has not presented the options he sought, or as quickly as he demanded them. That has given rise to multiple reports that McMaster could resign or be forced out in coming weeks, and added to the portrait of a White House in perpetual turmoil.

But when he walks into the Oval Office, McMaster is often caught in a carefully orchestrated manipulation by Mattis and Tillerson to slow the delivery of options they don't want the president to take, according to two current White House officials and one former official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions [.....]

so you got me wondering. And

artappraiser — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:39:03 +0000

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so you got me wondering. And I googled and came up with this from Nov., surprise surprise, Walt (of the infamous Walt & Mearsheimer)

Rex Tillerson Is Underrated

A revisionist assessment of the Trump administration’s beleaguered Secretary of State.

BY Stephen M.Walt, Nov. 20

Makes some interesting points.

Aside: I haven't really spent much time on ForeignPolicy.com for years, used to really like it but now they only give 3 articles per mo. free and when I paid for a subscription back then the log-in never worked, was fubar, customer service was lousy and I got mad at them and just gave up. Maybe time to try again.

The suspense is killing them,

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:36:13 +0000

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The suspense is killing them, I'm sure.

It's really surprising that

ocean-kat — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:28:53 +0000

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It's really surprising that Putin killed this spy because after the Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko the UK severely punished Russia by, let's see if I remember..... Oh yeah, doing nothing. And now they've done it again. I wonder why that didn't work.

“almost beyond comprehension”

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 07:37:00 +0000

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“almost beyond comprehension” = "message to bad dudes & traitors"

For some reason I see Tillerson as more old school corrupt as evil - which would imply it might eventually dawn on him what he's been assigned. But then, maybe I'm giving him too much credit.

Tillerson casts poisoning as

artappraiser — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 07:22:49 +0000

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Tillerson casts poisoning as sign of more aggressive Russia

By Josh Lederman @ AP, March 12

ABOARD A U.S. GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cast the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain as part of a “certain unleashing of activity” by Russia that the United States is struggling to understand. He warned that the poisoning would “certainly trigger a response.”

Tillerson, echoing the British government’s finger-pointing toward Moscow, said he didn’t yet know whether Russia’s government knew of the attack with a military-grade nerve agent, but that one way or another, “it came from Russia.” He said it was “almost beyond comprehension” why a state actor would deploy such a dangerous substance in a public place in a foreign country where others could be exposed [....]

What you need to know about

artappraiser — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:26:46 +0000

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What you need to know about Novichok, the Russian nerve agent used to poison ex-spy Sergei Skripal

@ BusinessInsider.com, March 12

Double agent Sergei Skripal was poisoned with nerve agent Novichok, Theresa May has said.
Novichok nerve agents are Cold War-era chemical weapons, up to ten times more deadly than the notorious XV nerve agent used in other assassinations.

It has become a pretty big

artappraiser — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:18:01 +0000

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It has become a pretty big deal in the UK, The Guardian did live reporting all day

'Highly likely' Moscow ordered attack on former Russian spy in UK – Politics live, March 13

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including PM’s statement in Commons about Salisbury attack