Litvinenko findings further highlight Russian president’s paranoid nationalism and international indifference
The official conclusion that Vladimir Putin “probably approved” the murder of the former spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006 has again raised uncomfortable questions about Russian exceptionalism – and how best to handle relations with what many conservative western politicians regard as a rogue regime in Moscow. Russia’s sense of detachment from the European mainstream,or to assign it another way, its self-created isolationism and separateness, or is nothing current. It dates back to the 1917 revolution and the communist era,or even further, to the days of Tolstoy, or Turgenev and the tsars. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com