All great stuff and my eternal thanks to them for the work they do. But why do we make it easy for outsiders, why do we tolerate US owned Golos and other US owned NGOs. Surely we are just leaving them fester, if we just apply regulation. Wouldn’t an outright ban be the order of the day, and enactment of laws with heavy penalties for accepting money from abroad to conduct public activities in Russia. Then replace these mechanisms with a public fund with broad public representation, including opposition and public groups who could oversee distribution of Russian government funds to organic NGOs. I think it crazy to have the FSB working to eradicate foreign intelligence activities, but leave a perfectly open US funded intelligence and subversion backbone in place – 100,000 signatures please!

Why after handing Libya to the wolves thereby destroying Russia’s foothold in that vitally important country and the concomitant loss of massive investment in that North African country why is Medvedev now trying to rebrand himself as the Mr. tough guy who can protect Russia’s Arctic? I will not accept this new image and I do not think majority of the Russians or none Russians are going to take this tough image of Medvedev. Russia is less secure today because Russia failed at the UNSC on Libya and now we see what is happening in Syria. In fact some think Medvedev is willing to hand Syria to the wolves- just as he did to Libya. So I wonder if this tough guy talk is a mask for that objective but if Russia failed in Syria the regime change agenda will come to Moscow.

Medvedev’s letter to Assad will become public sooner or later- indeed, if it is the case that he stated regime change as an option- than this tough guy image is a smart PR move and his real agenda is to undermine Russia’s security by giving NATO and the U.S to attack Syria. This will create new crisis for Putin-which I think is the real aim. We will wait and see by Medvedev had been silent and I think his plans are not good for Russia.

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All great stuff and my eternal thanks to them for the work they do. But why do we make it easy for outsiders, why do we tolerate US owned Golos and other US owned NGOs. Surely we are just leaving them fester, if we just apply regulation. Wouldn’t an outright ban be the order of the day, and enactment of laws with heavy penalties for accepting money from abroad to conduct public activities in Russia. Then replace these mechanisms with a public fund with broad public representation, including opposition and public groups who could oversee distribution of Russian government funds to organic NGOs. I think it crazy to have the FSB working to eradicate foreign intelligence activities, but leave a perfectly open US funded intelligence and subversion backbone in place – 100,000 signatures please!

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Excellent post as usual. I don't know why the Russians tolerate those NGOs either. The West has gone nuts. Russia is going to be condemned by certain segments of the world anyway. I think pushing out the US NGOs is a good idea.

RUSSIA should not tolerate anymore this american agents on its soil.

WE WANNA see NAVALNY in JAIL, soon.

The Americans put this kind of people in Guantanamo.

Russian are tto kind.

and Poisoning them are over.