The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] big investigations by Reuters into aspects of Russia’s economy4 7 and the second is a long review of a new 46 47 book on the rise of Putin and his associates.4 8 The two articles are complimentary in many ways. Both show, for example, that the current Russian kleptocracy has been created with and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’41 The ‘inch […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’41 The ‘inch […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’41 The ‘inch […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] there as the BBC correspondent, included one interesting snippet in Putin’s response to a question from him. Asked if there would be any further ‘special military operations’, Putin replied not ‘If you don’t cheat us as you did with NATO’s eastward expansion. You said NATO wouldn’t move one inch to the East.’35 The ‘inch […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the very first issue of Lobster. We […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the world as social networks. 15 Photographs have always been one of the easiest ways to judge a nation’s development. For example, those released of Prime Minister Putin are always a ‘look at me’ command, never interactive. He changes his accessories – most recently a lion cub – but the technique has not been […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the very first issue of Lobster. We […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster and the subject […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] they arrived. This saved Rusal a significant amount of time and money. Among those who invested in Rusal was Leonid Blavatnik, a multibillionaire with close ties to Putin. Since 2015, Blavatnik has donated $7 million to ‘campaign funds controlled by Mitch McConnell’. (pp. 152-155). Blavatnik, one of the richest men in the world, has […]

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