Looks like Vlad the Impoisoner is bringing back the glory days of the KGB, complete with wet affairs. I suppose we may expect to see him bring back more characteristics of the good old days when the Communists ruled Russia so successfully.

The denials of the Russian government have the same believablity as those of Baby Assad the Dorktator over the murders of Rafik Hariri and Pierre Gemayel. If civilized countries had any brains and courage they would cut off all connection with these criminal regimes and impose total blockades on them, at a minimum. Sadly brains and courage are lacking, and the hysterical protests against recent demonstrations of such characteristics were in part intended to prevent any such actions in the future. Thus the world will get worse. Letting the world get worse is called realism, although it could just as easily, and more accurately, be called stupid, short sighted pusillanimity.