Russia Back To The Old Soviet Tactics Of Intimidation And Threats

Russia Uses Dirty Tricks Despite U.S. ‘Reset’ -- Washington Times

Intelligence agents tell of intimidation, smears of American officials, diplomats.

In the past four years, Russia’s intelligence services have stepped up a campaign of intimidation and dirty tricks against U.S. officials and diplomats in Russia and the countries that used to form the Soviet Union.

U.S. diplomats and officials have found their homes broken into and vandalized, or altered in ways as trivial as bathroom use; faced anonymous or veiled threats; and in some cases found themselves set up in compromising photos or videos that are later leaked to the local press and presented as a sex scandal.

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My Comment: Being someone whose nationality is Russian .... I cannot say that I am surprised. But I try my best to be optimistic ..... at least we no longer have the gulags with millions of prisoners coupled with a famine in the countryside.

Update: A must read piece from Daniel Vajdic .... Moscow to Annex South Ossetia as U.S.-Russia “Reset” Crumbles?