Yulia, 33, and Sergei Skripal, 66, are both fighting for their lives following the poison plot and it has sparked panic among wealthy Russians in Britain
BBC: Russian exiles contacted over safety after tycoon murder
UK police have begun to contact a number of Russian exiles to discuss their safety as they investigate the murder of businessman Nikolai Glushkov.
The 68-year-old's body was discovered at his south-London home on 12 March. A post-mortem examination has found he died from "compression to the neck".
The UK granted Mr Glushkov political asylum in 2010 after he fled Moscow.
The BBC has been told police and the security services have reassessed their view that other exiles are at low risk.
Police say there is no evidence at this stage linking Mr Glushkov's death to the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury on 4 March.
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Update: Russian exiles are contacted by police to discuss their safety after demanding 'nuclear bunker-style' security and bodyguards at their homes after spy poisoning (Daily Mail)
WNU Editor: For the average Russian immigrant in the U.K. .... they are not worried. For those who have a certain "past in Russia" .... no question about it in my mind .... they are all nervous.
2 comments:
The guy was a double agent or working against the Russians.
The catch and they kill him, no problem.
But if you catch him and trade him that makes him ours. Killing him is an affront. It diminishes the ruling legitimacy of the UK, if other state actors can willy nilly kill people under British suzerainty. It is a well understood psychological principle. Armies use to pillage not only for forage and loot but at time primarily to force battle. If you did not confront the ravaging army, the ruling power in the area would lose legitimacy.
It is certainly cause for war. The only arguments being that the cost and risk are to great for the damage done, which is a very valid argument.
But if you do nothing you lose face, lose legitimacy. So it is tit for tat and that can spiral out of control too.
Wars often start when people miscalculate. Hitler miscalculated. He though he would give the French and British a fait accompli and they would back down because of the cost and the risk. After bluffing and winning in 1936, 1938 and 1939 he had reason to believe that bluff, bluster and fait accompli would get him through again. He was wrong.
The UK is just a little country as Obama would say. But when you look at countries you look at their allies and what faction they belong to and how strong the bonds are.
Putin can miscalculate too.
So basically Putin is killing those he wants to get rid off now (in the very small chance he would not be president again, he must think there's always a chance the US strikes back, election meddling wise).. so that's his personal kill list, I'd assume
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