A panel discussion about Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko

with Yuri Felshtinsky, Jack Matlock, Stephen Cohen and Edward Jay Epstein
in Current Affairs
on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 * * * * *

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A panel discusses the case of a former KGB spy, Alexander Litvinenko, who mysteriously died from radiation poisoning. Panelists include: investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein, Russian scholar Stephen Cohen, former Ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock, and author and friend of Alexander Litvinenko, Yuri Felshtinsky.

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    1. РÑ?Ñ?лан  06/24/2007 12:52 AM Report

      Being a Russian and not much of a supporter for Putin, I would like to offer a take on it that the American media does not seem to grasp. Whoever in the West (particularly in the US, since I constantly travel there) still believes that Putin had any reason to kill Litvenenko is delusional. There are so many other people who wanted Litvenenko dead (possibility: he used to "fight organized crime," didn't he?), that it's nothing short of idiotic to blame Kremlin of killing an absolute nobody (he was NOT a spy as verified by his own wife, but still claimed by Mr. Rose, but he WAS someone who the Russian people didn't even consider to be sane for his prior claims), particularly Putin, when that has the possibility to bring so much negative backlash while he is desperately trying to establish Russia as a superpower. The Russian system is very complex and it pisses Russians off to no end when they hear Americans talk about it like they know anything about the situation there.

      P.S. I don't agree with Stephen Cohen on everything, but he seems to be one of the only people who seems to actually understand what the hell is going on in Russia and how the government, corruption, the people, democracy, intelligence, etcetera all operate.

    2. John Clark  06/14/2007 03:53 PM Report

      You must, in your own shows' retrospect, identify Stephen Cohen's blatant Putin spin regarding probable Russian state sponsored asassination.

      If you were an investigative rather than conversational reporter, surely you would 'follow the money' in respect to Mr. Cohen. He sounds so like a paid Russia hack--at the very least a Russia sycophant upon whom his academic status depends.

      Shall we wink at this kind of intellectual and political error?