Who killed Yevgeny Prigozhin? – Gilbert Doctorow

Who killed Yevgeny Prigozhin? – Gilbert Doctorow Dear Mr. Rushford, You intentionally misread my article. I have only pointed out that for Putin to have directed this assassination would be directly contradictory to his record on keeping promises - going back to 1999 and the promises to Yeltsin to do nothing to the entourage and right up to 2023 and the deal with Lukashenko over Prigozhin's fate and that of the Wagner Group. I have given good reasons why some other person or group in Russia would have had motives to murder Prigozhin. I have also given good reasons why the United States and France would presently have good reasons to murder him. I could have added to that list Ukraine, where the destruction of 40,000 of their troops by the Wagner group in and around Bakhmut would be reason enough to plot his assassination. And how do you explain the special attention of U.S.intelligence to what brought down Prigozhin's plane. By dismissing the likelihood of ground to air missiles, they are indicating extraordinary surveillance of all Russian air space. But that is not to say I have alleged Washington was behind the murder. Vladimir Solovyov says that, and I believe that the American foreign policy community should be informed of what Russians are saying among themselves. Hughes' typically snarky comments do not help clarify what may have happened. As for your wholly unrelated question about Latvia: what is it that the country should remain free from? I have written several times over the past 5 years based on what I learned from visiting Riga during their year as the Cultural Capital of Europe, and from exchanges since with leaders of the stateless (Russian) population in Latvia, which numbered more than 300,000 after 1992 thanks to the discriminatory citizenship laws of that date, that Latvia is THE APARTHEID STATE within the European Union. Until and unless Latvia sobers up and begins to treat its substantial Russian speaking minority with the respect for human rights enshrined in the European Union's acquis, it is a country without a future. But to directly answer your question, yes, Latvia has a right to exist as an independent state. all the best Gilbert Doctorow On Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 03:34:34 PM GMT+2, G R wrote: Why did I not know before reading your latest, Mr. Doctorow, that your take would be to exonerate Putin and implicate America? An answer to one question, just a yes or no would suffice, would be appreciated: Do you agree that independent nations that border Russia, Latvia to name just one country that was formerly occupied by the USSR and is now free --- should remain so? My answer is an unequivocal Yes. Greg Rushford Editor & Publisher The Rushford Report www.rushfordreport.com