You can take a man out of the KGB, but you can’t take the KGB out of the man. The fact that Russia is being run by people from the former Soviet security services would be a lot like postwar Germany being run by Gestapo officers. Except former Soviet government officials are a lot nuttier on economic issues.
Yes and this has always been my issue with Russia. They have playing at this nonsense for some time. They put up lands for “fair” bids for metals mining projects, and it just happens a friend of Putin gets it.
The article is a little confusing. Who is investigating the actual case? England? Russia? Both? Are they cooperating?