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Just came across an intriguing theory about Sergei Skripal, the former Soviet/Russian military intelligence agent who spied for Britain, and, along with his daughter Yulia, was nearly killed this spring by a dose of the nerve agent Novichok in the town of Salisbury, England, where they live. In a March 21 interview on the John Batchelor Show, Gregory R. Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs, posited that Sergei Skripal is the unnamed Russian intelligence source in the Steele dossier. Copley further explained (or tried to explain) to Batchelor (who kept cutting him off): “The people who wished...

I never give time frames, because you never know where you'll have sufficient evidence to go public with a prosecution, " Mueller said.

Comrade Pavlik: The Rise and Fall of a Soviet Boy Hero By Catriona Kelly Granta Books 352 pp. 17.99 pounds Every society has models of childhood that express the aspirations and fears of the culture at large. They may be cautionary tales or sagas of triumph. Elaborated in stories that generally contain elements of both legend and contemporary life, these narratives arise over time through a natural process of accretion. New details are gradually layered over ancient plots, subtly altering storylines or shifting the moral emphasis. What happens, then, when a society tries to come up with its own models...