The news that Russia is outraged at the extradition from Thailand of one Victor Bout comes as no surprise hereabouts.
Mr Bout who as far as I can gather, is an arms dealer as dodgy as they come, started making a large pile of money as the unlamented Soviet Union disintegrated.
As the article to which I have linked this post suggests, Mr Bout must almost certainly have friends in very high places in Russia.
Incidentally is Russia still "The Commonwealth of Independent States"? That name is about as convincing as "The Democratic Republic of Congo"!
Meanwhile I imagine that that any surviving Russian journalists will be inclined to tread very carefully on this one. To be an independent journalist in Russia today requires courage of an extraordinary sort.
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