DenisRS
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Once in a while, I manage to check some media to find out the level of distortion and lies they try readers to brainwash with. As always, media are doing great.
Any person in the world can take whatever subject and easily find like dozen of lies and untold truths there. Mine exercise is here:
1) Litvinenko was never "intelligence agent"/spy -- worked in criminal investigation/guarding departments that have nothing to do with whatever secrets or anything. So much sense for Putin all of sudden to kill him years after his claims against FSB, at the same time leaving many much more outspoken people like "major foe" Berezovsky perfectly fine all those years. Berezovsky's love of PR activity and financing PR agency on death of Litvinenko does not tell anything, of course, either;
2) Litvinenko was never "dissident" -- it was years after his famous 1998 claims that FSB ordered to kill Berezovsky he freely left Russia for UK, no one ousted him and no one really opposed to it since the person was not being of any importance in terms of whatever state or "Putin's" secrets (see point #1). Being on alimony from Berezovsky has nothing to do with anything secretive so the scary totalitarian tyrant Putin really did not care if Litvinenko goes of the country or not;
3) Georgy Markov's death was not KGB doing -- it was not mentioned not to dispel "the right" impression on readers;
4) "reminder that the killers were a nuclear power" -- there are different places where Polonium-210 could be gotten, including even cases where that matterial was stolen in some countries (not Russia);
5) "no western government agency has much interest in investigating it" -- British agency put a lot of efforts in it, even going to Russia to investigate (though the findings lack of subtance to this day);
6) "having become grimly accustomed to Putin's bullish, neo-Soviet ascendancy" -- there is no information that Putin did anything bullish on his own initiative, however, he responded rather harsh on certain movements from his international partners;
7) "He had claimed that Putin wanted his spooks to assassinate the Yeltsin-era tycoon Boris Berezovsky" -- that happened in wide PR TV statement back in 1998 all of sudden after Putin started investigate Berezovsky's connections to terrorists in Chechnya; surprizingly, it turned out that Litvinenko was for many years on alimony from Berezovsky;
8) "the intelligence services had themselves staged the horrendous Russian apartment bombings in 1999, which they blamed on Chechen separatists and used as a pretext for a new, all-out war on Chechnya" -- Litvinenko was not any near to "intelligence services" ever, from very beginning, working only in criminal investigation and, mostly, in guarding departments (see #1);
9) "the intelligence services had themselves staged the horrendous Russian apartment bombings in 1999, which they blamed on Chechen separatists and used as a pretext for a new, all-out war on Chechnya" -- by the time of autumn of 1999, Litvinenko for long time did not work around any authorities at all to know anything about who staged bombing;
10) "the intelligence services had themselves staged the horrendous Russian apartment bombings in 1999, which they blamed on Chechen separatists and used as a pretext for a new, all-out war on Chechnya" -- those were terrorists, not separatists; separatists are those who voice, for example, for independance of Scotland;
11) "the intelligence services had themselves staged the horrendous Russian apartment bombings in 1999, which they blamed on Chechen separatists and used as a pretext for a new, all-out war on Chechnya" -- pretext was terrorists massively attacking Chechnya's neighbour Dagestan months before apartment bombings took place (the goal was to create Al Quada/fundamentalistic Khalifat that takes territory of several countries; not much a do with Chechen independance itself). But if Bradshow did that fact-checking, would then image of Russia and Putin look so demonic?
12) "Nekrasov claims that the culture of fear and secrecy triumphantly survived the end of the Soviet Union." -- no fear and secrecy is witnessed;
13) "The surviving authoritarianism and paranoia were welded to a new worship of money and gangsterism, while the old incompetence remained intact" -- no paranoia is witnessed yet, no one in Russia claims that certain deaths of people related to UK and its business is doing of MI-6 or something.
We can not expect "journalist" Bradshow to make some fact-checking since the article would not create "the right" impression on readers then. However, the article is not the worst, since author in the end expresses wish to have more proofs that 1999 bombings were staged by Kremlin. With this, he still finds paranoia in Russia, not in his own twisted and false descriptions of what was happening.
Any person in the world can take whatever subject and easily find like dozen of lies and untold truths there. Mine exercise is here:
The Guardian said:
1) Litvinenko was never "intelligence agent"/spy -- worked in criminal investigation/guarding departments that have nothing to do with whatever secrets or anything. So much sense for Putin all of sudden to kill him years after his claims against FSB, at the same time leaving many much more outspoken people like "major foe" Berezovsky perfectly fine all those years. Berezovsky's love of PR activity and financing PR agency on death of Litvinenko does not tell anything, of course, either;
2) Litvinenko was never "dissident" -- it was years after his famous 1998 claims that FSB ordered to kill Berezovsky he freely left Russia for UK, no one ousted him and no one really opposed to it since the person was not being of any importance in terms of whatever state or "Putin's" secrets (see point #1). Being on alimony from Berezovsky has nothing to do with anything secretive so the scary totalitarian tyrant Putin really did not care if Litvinenko goes of the country or not;
3) Georgy Markov's death was not KGB doing -- it was not mentioned not to dispel "the right" impression on readers;
4) "reminder that the killers were a nuclear power" -- there are different places where Polonium-210 could be gotten, including even cases where that matterial was stolen in some countries (not Russia);
5) "no western government agency has much interest in investigating it" -- British agency put a lot of efforts in it, even going to Russia to investigate (though the findings lack of subtance to this day);
6) "having become grimly accustomed to Putin's bullish, neo-Soviet ascendancy" -- there is no information that Putin did anything bullish on his own initiative, however, he responded rather harsh on certain movements from his international partners;
7) "He had claimed that Putin wanted his spooks to assassinate the Yeltsin-era tycoon Boris Berezovsky" -- that happened in wide PR TV statement back in 1998 all of sudden after Putin started investigate Berezovsky's connections to terrorists in Chechnya; surprizingly, it turned out that Litvinenko was for many years on alimony from Berezovsky;
8) "the intelligence services had themselves staged the horrendous Russian apartment bombings in 1999, which they blamed on Chechen separatists and used as a pretext for a new, all-out war on Chechnya" -- Litvinenko was not any near to "intelligence services" ever, from very beginning, working only in criminal investigation and, mostly, in guarding departments (see #1);
9) "the intelligence services had themselves staged the horrendous Russian apartment bombings in 1999, which they blamed on Chechen separatists and used as a pretext for a new, all-out war on Chechnya" -- by the time of autumn of 1999, Litvinenko for long time did not work around any authorities at all to know anything about who staged bombing;
10) "the intelligence services had themselves staged the horrendous Russian apartment bombings in 1999, which they blamed on Chechen separatists and used as a pretext for a new, all-out war on Chechnya" -- those were terrorists, not separatists; separatists are those who voice, for example, for independance of Scotland;
11) "the intelligence services had themselves staged the horrendous Russian apartment bombings in 1999, which they blamed on Chechen separatists and used as a pretext for a new, all-out war on Chechnya" -- pretext was terrorists massively attacking Chechnya's neighbour Dagestan months before apartment bombings took place (the goal was to create Al Quada/fundamentalistic Khalifat that takes territory of several countries; not much a do with Chechen independance itself). But if Bradshow did that fact-checking, would then image of Russia and Putin look so demonic?
12) "Nekrasov claims that the culture of fear and secrecy triumphantly survived the end of the Soviet Union." -- no fear and secrecy is witnessed;
13) "The surviving authoritarianism and paranoia were welded to a new worship of money and gangsterism, while the old incompetence remained intact" -- no paranoia is witnessed yet, no one in Russia claims that certain deaths of people related to UK and its business is doing of MI-6 or something.
We can not expect "journalist" Bradshow to make some fact-checking since the article would not create "the right" impression on readers then. However, the article is not the worst, since author in the end expresses wish to have more proofs that 1999 bombings were staged by Kremlin. With this, he still finds paranoia in Russia, not in his own twisted and false descriptions of what was happening.
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