How good investigators, whether policemen or secret service analysts, do their job is a fascinating subject, as absorbing as reading the best of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. In The  Adventure of the Silver Blaze Holmes noticed the odd fact, which the usual, clumsy official detective completely failed to comprehend: that, when the racehorse was … Continue reading Russian Assassins’ Entrepot in France

The German Government today declared two Russian "diplomats" persona non grata. Given Berlin's persistent attempts to improve relations with Russia, this comes as yet another blow to Moscow's hopes of reaching some kind of understanding with the EU on a sustained basis and remove the sanctions originally imposed as a result of the Russian invasion … Continue reading Another Skrypal’