The fact that such documents even exist is incredible.<p>Did the Soviet Union keep any such records? Im assuming this is an important leak.<p>What's frightened me the other day was to look at the BRICS bloc vs NATO in GDP adjusted PPP. BRICS is now the bigger bloc. China holds enormous manufacturing power, Russia is a petro state with a giant military complex being built for Ukraine (and presumably will be used elsewhere if they prevail there). Brasil is pretending to be non aligned but under Lula increasingly China friendly. Our luck is that India is unaligned. But it's impressive to go to GDP PPP and see what BRICS are now some of the biggest economies in the World. Russia is at the size of Germany.
I'm genuinely curious what the logic is behind Russia murdering someone (or attempting to murder, in the previous attempt) with a distinctively Russian nerve agent that would immediately implicate them as being involved- Was it done on purpose as an intimidation thing? Why not just push them out a window?
It's not a leak, Putin traditionally wants to indicate that it is he who ordered to kill him while officially saying he has nothing to do with this. It is a kind of game - it was the same with Prigozhin, Litvinenko and others.