Re: I would like to ask Moses if he is a surpporter of Putin ?
It's quite a coincidence!
Separately it's fascinating how in this case Bellingcat, see links above, could work with underground Russian sources to expose the GRU agents travelling with false passports.
Alternatively one could look at the questions about the western assumptions in the case in a UK newspaper, The Independent.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a8807191.html
Of course the owner of the Independent is a Russian expat resident in the UK. Does that mean that he has GRU connections or has an axe to grind? Or does it mean that his newspaper is searching after truth?
Re: I would like to ask Moses if he is a surpporter of Putin ?
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Brad the Impala
Of course the owner of the Independent is a Russian expat resident in the UK. Does that mean that he has GRU connections or has an axe to grind? Or does it mean that his newspaper is searching after truth?
Good question. Owner of Independent is UK lord from House of lords (since few days ago when El. II signed order and promoted him to baron Syberian (yes, is it kind of British humor, but it is true)), his name is Eugeny Lebedev and he is son of Russian oligarch and high level KGB officer Alexander Lebedev, who is living in UK sometimes (or mostly).
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Good question. Owner of Independent is UK lord from House of lords (since few days ago when El. II signed order and promoted him to baron Syberian (yes, is it kind of British humor, but it is true)), his name is Eugeny Lebedev and he is son of Russian oligarch and high level KGB officer Alexander Lebedev, who is living in UK sometimes (or mostly).
Interesting, I was not previously aware of the new peerage, Moses and post below the official confirmation:
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THE QUEEN has been pleased by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated 19 November 2020 to confer the dignity of a Barony of the United Kingdom for life upon Evgeny Alexandrovich Lebedev, by the name, style and title of BARON LEBEDEV, of Hampton in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and of Siberia in the Russian Federation.
Link to The Gazette: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3681133
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Interesting, I was not previously aware of the new peerage
Yeah. I think it is right time for Putin to appoint also somebody with strange title. For example vice-king of GB.
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Well the Prince of Wales is de jure vice King of the UK and has been so since Edward II gave the Welsh a good going over.
Clearly the Siberia part of the title is a poke at Pooty Poots and no nation can mock power like the British can.
As for our favourite horse riding, tiger wrestling, war mongerer making an appointment to our scepteted isle. How about a Cultural and Pharmacutical Attache to the Court of The Old Bailey.
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Ok, the appointed by Putin will be First vice King.
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Well Queen Elizabeth II is related to your last Tsar, Nicholas II. Initially King George V said that the Russian Royal family could have asylum in Britain. However he withdrew the invitation upon the advice of his government, fearing perhaps that their presence could fuel the republican sentiments abound at the time. It must have broken George's heart. He was very close to his cousin and in fact they look more like twin brothers than cousins.