Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Holes in Russia's Attempt to Project a Powerful Image

If you've seen the current movie, "The Death of Stalin," you've seen the chaos that existed when his successors struggled to replace him. What will happen after Putin's death?

     It is April 10, 2018 and the three people intentionally exposed to Russia's "deadly" novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, on March 4, 2018 are not dead. In fact, the detective who was poisoned when he began an investigation at the home where the nerve agent is thought to have been placed on the door handle was released from the hospital on March 22. Yulia Skripal, the daughter of the former Russian military spy, Sergei V. Skripal, who was the intended target of the nerve agent, was released from the hospital today. Her father who continued a slower recovery in the hospital, according to Dr. Christine Blanshard, was released in late May.

     Dr. Blanshard described how nerve agents work by attaching themselves to a body's particular enzymes to disrupt their functions. Drugs enable patients to create healthy replacement enzymes.

     Although the earlier post, "Hearing Voices from Mexico and Russia," reports some of Russia's successful attempts to kill the country's perceived enemies, it also reports how Vladimir Kara-Murza, like the Skripals, survived a poisoning, in fact he survived two Kremlin-backed poisonings.

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