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KGB plot fears as critc of Putin vanishes in Latvia

dailymail.co.uk — An international manhunt was launched last night for a Russian-born British media magnate whose mysterious disappearance has possible links to the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko. Jet-setting billionaire Leonid Rozhetskin, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, vanished from his £1 million home...

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  • gbudavid, on 03/24/2008, -3/+34Ya Think Putin Had something to do with this? Perish the Thought;)
    • dinobot, on 03/24/2008, -2/+11He prolly did it himself, you know, since he was KGB and all

      I actually hoped he was Spetsnaz as well, because being able to strike your foe with a hatchet while doing a back flip is just an awesome skill to possess.
    • flogistan, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2The oligarchs are the ones killing all these people.
    • Cattywampus, on 03/24/2008, -0/+4Good thing Putin's not in power anymore (cough, cough).
      • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2Putin was never in power. It is the FSB (KGB) the invisible state within the state of Russia. FSB put Putin in Power - they can take him down any time. They put him to work undercover to rescue the Russian government from Yeltsin and his thugs who have been selling Russia by pieces to UK and US and stealing billions from Russian people. UK/US are not happy, because they can't loot Russia anymore and because Putin is not a puppet. If he was a bad president, or if he was doing something that's bad for Russia, the FSB would take him out long time ago.
        Remember, its not Putin or Medvedev that run Russia - its the FSB - the invisible state within the state. They are highly intelligent and very dangerous people with all the world's secrets. They can be agents, or businessmen, or gangsters or all 3 at the same time. Putin is just their representative.
  • neocognitism, on 03/24/2008, -16/+11cageybee! How could you?
  • Iconoclast25, on 03/24/2008, -7/+22Well, if they ever film his biography, Tom Cruise can star and there will be no need to use any trick photography to make him look less like a shrimp.

    Attention: Daily Mail: it's been the RSS for at least 15 years; you need to pass along this information to your editors.

    Finally - if it isn't Putin, it is someone who wants to keep or curry favor with him. All sorts of ex-pat Russians (and stay-at-home critics) seem to have severe heavy metal poisoning problems.
    • Fabozz, on 03/24/2008, -2/+3"Attention: Daily Mail: it's been the RSS for at least 15 years; you need to pass along this information to your editors."

      As long as it's the exact same people doing the exact same ***** the exact same way, I see no reason not to call them by the exact same name.
    • DonTazeMeBro, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Lead, just like the Romans.
  • schlank, on 03/24/2008, -9/+6Dugg!
  • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -18/+6man moves to a state Estonia that praises Fascism, with money stolen from Russia, then talks ***** about Russia, then gets murdered for being a thug and a british media starts to publish anti-Putin/anti-Russia propaganda. ***** this bitch.
    • jofukia, on 03/24/2008, -4/+21In case you hadn't noticed Facism is back baby, alive and kicking in Russia.
      • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -20/+3no its not back in Russia. i study Russian politics and geopolitics, speak Russian, and know Russian culture intimately.
        • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -17/+3Putin wouldn't nationalize Russian oil if he was a Fascist.
        • DonTazeMeBro, on 03/24/2008, -1/+5Sorry cagey, but this time you fail.
        • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -4/+3no, i did not fail - i said "Putin wouldn't nationalize Russian oil if he was a Fascist." this alone proves that he is not a fascist, because oil benefits Russian people and he is taking care of them. Fascists don't do that. Fascists privatize energy sources and let oil companies ***** people with 4 dollar gas prices. and then, when these oil companies about to lose their contracts in middle east, they call for help from governments to send military to terrorize them so that no one can mess with them.

          that's Fascism and not what you had in mind.
          • tobias1482, on 03/24/2008, -1/+0Can you slow down and rewrite your post? It's not making some of the comment sense thing.
            Also, what can we read to learn more?
          • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -2/+3wikipedia has a post on Putinism and a post on Putin. both articles backed by good sources of information. in addition, you can read a briefing from the Center for Intelligence Studies. you can find it on google "andropov report." also, read my posts on Ron Paul forums on this particular thread http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=1251 ... and this one http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=1241 ...
            I got banned from Ron Paul forums for speaking the truth and proving that any capitalist system always turns into a fascist system.
          • flogistan, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2I love ron paul, but I have to say as I was reading that, it flashed through my mind, what would one have to say to get banned from a ron paul forum. By the time I got to the end of the sentence, I realized he had found the only thing.
    • ManoWar, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2People don't seem to know when Putin was elected. The company’s that represented 60% of the GDP refused to pay tax. If big companies don’t pay tax in the state they get destroyed. He has made them pay tax to help the people of Russia and keep Russia strong for its people. The UK wants Russia to be weak so they have gave Safe haven to enemy's of the state. They also let the enemy's of the state try to destabilized Russia to force them into the EU. Think of Enron finding a Safe haven in china then trying to elect someone what will wave clear there crimes.
  • iwealthmentor, on 03/24/2008, -5/+5How can you really think that the KGB is at this again, they do not exist anymore. Viva la FSS
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -6/+4same thing. Russians still call them GB (without K). GB = state security.
    • Colonel2121, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1you're an idiot!
  • sKiLLa182, on 03/24/2008, -2/+21Well, he's dead.
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -15/+1world is a little better now - 1 thug less in the world.
  • lhbaker, on 03/24/2008, -3/+6Dugg for arm candy
  • Shawshanksr, on 03/24/2008, -5/+4his wife is hot, hope he left her behind
    • sv650touring, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1I would leave her behind... severely bruised and covered in teethmarks.
  • schmitey, on 03/24/2008, -3/+2Is anyone else confused? They're just throwing names out here and assuming everyone can figure it out...
    • ssttuu, on 03/24/2008, -0/+4Thats because its a British Newspaper, and the British people are well abreast of theses people. We like to know the people who left a trail of polonium-210 across London!
    • flogistan, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Everyone else is, that's the point.
  • usingpond, on 03/24/2008, -4/+11Putin is sketchy, no doubt about it.
  • lostprophet23, on 03/24/2008, -3/+0nvm
  • mrloco, on 03/24/2008, -1/+6daily mail -> bury
  • Janizzary, on 03/24/2008, -0/+7I think Victoria Silverstedt has him imprisoned between the Silicone Hills...
  • Vapor17, on 03/24/2008, -4/+4Can someone explain to me what "KGB plot fears" means?
    • ssttuu, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2Its when you fear being killed off by the KGB, i.e there plotting against you. Be more afraid, be very afraid /lol
    • Cattywampus, on 03/24/2008, -0/+10I think it means the Daily Mail was too lazy to look up what the name of the successor to the KGB is.
      It's a badly worded headline ... not only inaccurate, but confusing.
  • gab00n, on 03/24/2008, -2/+10Cheney sends bottle of wine as a token of admiration.
  • Cattywampus, on 03/24/2008, -1/+4What, *again*? How many more Kremlin opponents are going to disappear, I wonder?
    I'd hate to be a journalist or ex-KGB agent in Russia, even if I *did* have my own personal harem of tall, blonde models.
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3no such a thing as an ex-KGB member. - Putin
  • foovo, on 03/24/2008, -0/+4Authorities are looking for this man:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Badenov
    • Cattywampus, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Natasha was always pretty hot looking, for a cartoon character.
  • nicksawick1, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2The international world needs to put their foot down on this one.
    • RedStarRizing, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1were you saying that when the us was starting illegal wars in iraq and serbia
      • SemiSarcastic, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Prove yours and he can prove his. This is the internet after all.
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3the international world needs to put its one foot in your mouth and another in your ass. what the ***** international world can do to Russia and China??? US can't even win a war in Iraq. you think you can fight a 8 million man army??? because there is nothing else US can do. they have US by the balls financially, they control oil prices, they control US economy. and they set Bush up with Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran - Bush is just ***** clueless. what are you going to do???
    • ManoWar, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2People don't seem to know when Putin was elected. The company’s that represented 60% of the GDP refused to pay tax. If big companies don’t pay tax in the state they get destroyed. He has made them pay tax to help the people of Russia and keep Russia strong for its people. The UK wants Russia to be weak so they have gave Safe haven to enemy's of the state. They also let the enemy's of the state try to destabilized Russia to force them into the EU. Think of Enron finding a Safe haven in china then trying to elect someone what will wave clear there crimes.
  • JasonCox, on 03/24/2008, -2/+3Dugg because if Digg says the KGB is still around it must be true.
  • flogistan, on 03/24/2008, -2/+3The oligarchs are really knocking off alot of people over there.
  • brivapor, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3i guess putin is above western mud slinging tacticks
    in the west any slob can throw mud at the ruler
    better think again if your in russia
  • makemoneynotart, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1Can I take over his life now?
    • charlietuna, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1It would be a brief role.
    • lazyfisherman, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Only if you promise to be an outspoken critic of Putin like he was.
  • rugby4ward, on 03/24/2008, -8/+2Dirty ***** Russians...
    • david468, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2Dirty *****' racists. Lynch 'em all!
  • chrisinsocalif, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2Maybe he left with some hot blonde's and didn't tell anyone.
  • greeniemeani, on 03/24/2008, -5/+0I'd hit that (on the left).

    In Soviet Russia, woman hits you?
    • flogistan, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1You were buried because you are not allowed to feed yourself the line with which you make the joke. No yakking yourself off around here.
      • greeniemeani, on 03/24/2008, -0/+0You are just mad because you wanted to do the Soviet Russia thing yourself :)
  • mapkinase, on 03/24/2008, -1/+3This is the first time I am hearing about that "dissident". Are you sure those news are not overblown out of proportion? I am not a Putin, the Butcher of Chechnya, fan, but this newsbit is just laughable.
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1CIA started this separatist chechnya ***** over caspian oil pipelines. just FYI
  • kitaljevich, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2What kind of billionaire lives in a £1 million home?
    • lazyfisherman, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Maybe that was the home on the edge of the property where the "help" lives
    • bxblox, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Its russia, where a year long stay in a 5 star hospital starts at 60k/year. £1 million may only buy you a decent sized apartment in nyc, but im sure it goes a little farther there.
  • JerkHimey56, on 03/24/2008, -5/+5This is just a travesty what putin is doing to russia. They had achieved such progress under yeltsin toward democracy and freedom. They had non corrupt investors like the oligarchs bringing in huge investment from western banks. Everything was going so great. Then putin came in and stopped the oligarchs from making a whole new free democratic start for russia. I guess idealism and decency could never survive long in the evil empire. Now putin has started to kill journalists for no good reason. He poisons people with polonium. He obviously loves putting out these high profile hits to make himself look more powerful in the world. The oligarchs were the only ones who had the best interest of the russian people in mind. Now the russian standard of living is plummeting and putin is keeping all the profits from the businesses he stole from the oligarchs to buy yachts and new palaces. Putin just hates russia and the russian people.
    • res8qr6m, on 03/24/2008, -0/+3I hope that is sarcasm...
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -2/+3hey dumfuk, how do you think they made their billions??? they privatized russian properties and sold them to US/UK - enslaving Russian people. yeah real noble *****??? now that they can't ***** russian people in the ass anymore - putin is undemocratic. and guess who is saying it??? the totalitarian capitalists that want to conquer and enslave the whole world in their monopoly game called NWO.
    • volando, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1"They had achieved such progress under yeltsin toward democracy and freedom." LOL, stopped reading after that sentence. You have obviously no clue about anything that has happened in Russia and the extend of lies, corruption, theft and mockery of democracy that was going on under Yeltsin's regime. Putin may not be a saint, but he brought stability to the economy and strength back to the government.
  • peothre, on 03/24/2008, -7/+5US is trying to set Putin up again, just as the US has tried to set up numerous leaders for "regime change,' because it wants Russian oil. It's just about that. Putin is one of the major forces checking US imperialism. This so-called murder is just about trying to frame him as a pretext for an invasion or some such. US policy is so transparent, but that does not make it any less inhuman or less destructive.
    • SemiSarcastic, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2Coming from a 59-year-old I can see why you'd think that.
      • peothre, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Don' t quite get your point, if you really had one, semisarcastic
    • tobias1482, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1First, we have oil here. Second, overthrowing a government for oil is actually more expensive then just buying it from the country or drilling for it here in the long run. Most intelligent people realize this. Especially after the current debacles outcome. Oil was not the reason for going in. The reasons for going in were complex, but it wasn't oil...
      • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1american oil can not be used, because Saudi oil is the backing for US dollar. if we start using our own reserves, then Saudis will stop backing dollar with oil and we are dead from hunger.
        • peothre, on 03/25/2008, -0/+0Oil was mixed into the reasons for going into Iraq, but I agree, there must be some elaborate geopolitical strategy as well, all miscalculated as usual. I also agree that it is cheaper to purchase oil on the market. But really, it's not for the oil so much as to get a piece of the revenue stream, and putin won't let them have it, so they'll try to get it another way such as regime change or invading the country, etc.
  • Dumbledorito, on 03/24/2008, -2/+2If only we'd had someone who could have "looked into his soul" and seen what kind of a person he was going to be like...

    Forget that the man is ex-KGB and has shown all the predisposition to enlightened democratic governance as a caffeine-addicted 13-year-old playing "Civ III" while listening to death metal, it's SOUL VISION we need!
    • ManoWar, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Yes no one in the USA has worked for CIA and then the Whitehouse. O nos! They have!
  • 4d669, on 03/24/2008, -2/+1I still don't understand why Putin was the Man of the Year. Well, I don't understand why the iPhone was the invention of the year either. Ah ***** it, I'll just look at the hot ladies in the pics.
    • Cattywampus, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Man of the Year is given to the person or thing that has had the most influence, for good or bad. I think Putin qualifies.
      If Putin bought an iPhone, would Time name them Man/Machine of the decade?
    • ManoWar, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1People don't seem to know when Putin was elected. The company’s that represented 60% of the GDP refused to pay tax. If big companies don’t pay tax in the state they get destroyed. He has made them pay tax to help the people of Russia and keep Russia strong for its people. The UK wants Russia to be weak so they have gave Safe haven to enemy's of the state. They also let the enemy's of the state try to destabilized Russia to force them into the EU. Think of Enron finding a Safe haven in china then trying to elect someone what will wave clear there crimes.
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -1/+2you would have to live in Russia since 1991 to 2007 to understand why he became a man of the year.
  • briLo, on 03/24/2008, -1/+0And this is shocking because???? Very attractive girls though!!
  • SemiSarcastic, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1I convinced now that the only thing Russia can do right is sell oil and scare the ***** out of people.
  • Patori, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1Sigh, he's dead.

    But such is the life of a pimp.
  • poleag, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1i still don't fully understand the concept of "privatization" and the creation of this new class of Russian billionaires. if the major industries of Russia were state owned and state controlled, how did they come to belong to one tiny group of people within the space of 10 years? is there any suggested reading material on this subject?
  • Striff, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1in communist russia.....YOU DIE.
  • Qtip42, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1It's sad when speaking your opinion can have you killed and/or tossed in jail (if you're poor).......America's heading that direction though I'm pretty sure they're a bit more discreet about it. Russians just kill first and think later.
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1russians don't kill first then think later. this guy could be killed by either berezovsky or CIA/MI6, or FSB. Berezovsky and CIA/MI6 could do it to make Putin look bad or to frame him. FSB could do it because he stole $40 million and ran to estonia - the state that's despised by Russia, because Estonia praises fascism and hitler.
  • mzx639, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1Colonel Mustard did it in the kitchen with a knife....
  • otaku22, on 03/24/2008, -2/+1I pray for him. He's a relative of a friend of mine, and a decent and generous person.
    • cageybee, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1generous person would not steal $40 million and hide in Estonia.
  • pigfister, on 03/24/2008, -1/+1more propaganda to create anti Russian views.

    USA missile silos anyone?
  • swilson191, on 03/24/2008, -0/+0Obviously the dude had one too many hot chicks, way more than Putin. When you go around mother Russia flaunting all your hot chicks, people get pissed and then people go missing.
  • StaticThunder, on 03/25/2008, -0/+1No no. He vanished in Lava, not Latvia.
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