Commentators

Rain (AM and PM) 6° London Hi 10°C / Lo 6°C

Johann Hari: We can't allow Russia's dissidents to be killed on Europe's streets

We must choose to protect them, or let them be picked off on our streets

The critics of Vladimir Putin – Russia's Prime Minister and former KGB agent – have a strange habit of being found shot or stabbed or poisoned. This week, I met a man who is half-expecting an assassin's bullet – here, in London. He is not alone. Ahmed Zakayev – a big, broad man with a grey beard and grief-soaked eyes – says: "I remember holding a press conference near here with my dear friends Alexander Litvinenko and Anna Politkovskaya. Now they are murdered and I am the only one left. But I have no right to sit in a hole and shake. I have to speak."

Zakayev is a Chechen, and his people have been pounded by Putin and his predecessors for too long. The people of his small mountainous province in the Northern Caucusus – rich in natural resources – are one of the most abused populations on earth. In the 1940s, Joseph Stalin deported every single one of them to Siberia and elsewhere. A third died on the way there; a third died on the way back.

"My grandmother never recovered from this," Zakayev says. When the Soviet Empire finally fell in 1991, the people of Chechnya tried to carve out some autonomy from their vast neighbour – and they were then pummelled into submission by aerial bombardments and ground invasions that killed hundreds of thousands of people. "There were corpses everywhere. I see them [in my mind] all the time," Zakayev adds.

The current killing spree of Russian dissidents is, in part, an attempt to silence criticisms of these crimes. Anna Politkovskaya was a journalist – one of the greatest of our time – who travelled to Chechnya to expose the mass torture and slaughter by Russian troops there. She believed that Chechnya was a test-bed for tyranny that was spreading back across Russia itself, leading to "the re-establishment of the Soviet Union". As if to prove her point, first she was poisoned. She survived. Then she was shot dead in the lift shaft of her apartment block.

Last week, the trial for her killing ended in Moscow. The case conspicuously avoided asking who ordered her killing, or why. It focused on "the middlemen" – the alleged driver and look-out for the assassin. They were acquitted. Nobody will be punished now.

Alexander Litvinenko was a Russian agent sent to Chechnya in the 1990s. He believed he was "fighting terrorism" – but he was startled by what he found. For him, the turning point was when he arrested a 16-year-old "resistance fighter". He told the boy he should be at school. "I want to be," the boy said, "but my school was blown up."

Litvinenko began to speak out against the assault on Chechnya – and had to run for his life, to London, where he became a British citizen. His food was spiked with nuclear material in a restaurant in Central London, and he died in agony, of radiation poisoning. The trail of nuclear material ran quite literally through British Airways planes – back to Moscow.

"Alexander knew who killed him," Zakayev tells me, adding that he was with Litvinenko as he lay dying, "right to the end". But despite extensive documented claims, this suspect has not been charged and the Kremlin has refused Britain's extradition requests. "Indeed, he is a member of the Russian Parliament and celebrated by Putin," Zakayev says.

Europe allowed a Russian dissident to be murdered without consequences – so it is happening again. Umar Israilov was a 27-year-old bodyguard to Ramzan Kadyrov, the thug appointed by Putin to run Chechnya today, who describes the province as a "zoo" filled with "animals" and brags: "I will be killing as long as I live."

Israilov was horrified, so he fled to Austria, to speak out. He begged the Viennese police for protection, but they refused. On 13 Jaunary this year, he was chased through the streets of Vienna by a gang of hit men – and shot twice in the head. This is only going to get worse. Dissent in Russia was relatively low as the economy boomed, built on a swelling oil price. But now Russia's stock market has fallen by 75 percent since last summer, the biggest drop in the world. That's why the ex-KGB chairman of the Duma's Security Committee, Gennady Gudkov, says: "We are expecting mass unemployment and mass riots."

To prepare, Putin has restored the Soviet-era criminalisation of dissent. Now, if you "advise" a human rights organisation – merely by speaking to them – you are guilty of "high treason". More people are going to flee to Europe – and we are going to have to choose between protecting them or letting them be picked off on our streets.

Yet for Europe, human rights in Russia are a bitterly low priority. Our governments are partly responsible for this resurgence of dictatorship. After the fall of Soviet tyranny, it was Europe and the US that forced Russia's infant democracy to privatise everything overnight in a programme of "shock therapy". The social services were shut down overnight and everything flogged off. As a result, the country's assets were seized by piratical oligarchs, and – according to a major study by The Lancet – over a million ordinary Russians died of cold or hunger or extreme poverty. This chaos and mass death made the old anti-democratic propaganda seem true – and sent the population running back to the old, cold face of dictatorship.

Worse still, we in Europe are addicted to Russia's gas supplies. If we anger Putin, he can turn off the gas taps, as he has shown with his bullying of Ukraine. Our government has made the bleak calculation that a dissident being murdered in central London doesn't weigh much against keeping the lights on.

There are many urgent reasons to end our dependence on fossil fuels. One of the most compelling is that, until we do, we will not be able to keep a democratic space for Russian dissidents to speak the truth, even here, on our own soil.

Zakayev looks out of the window, across the London skyline. "I do not want to die. Alexander and Anna did not want to die. But for the hundreds of my friends who are gone, I have to keep speaking." We – the peoples of Europe – have to protect that right at least, and at last.

j.hari@independent.co.uk

More from Johann Hari

Post a Comment

View all comments that have been posted about this article.

Offensive or abusive comments will be removed and your IP logged and may be used to prevent further submission. In submitting a comment to the site, you agree to be bound by the Independent Minds Terms of Service.

Comments

British Hypocrisy
[info]jozzyoz01 wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 02:32 am (UTC)
Folks, Americans and Brits, you shelter Muslim terrorists who are responsible for the deaths of thousands of Russian nationals and let's not forget the Chechen Conflict starts with the Tsars ... 100s of years ago, followed by a Georgian, not Russian named Josef Vissarionovich Stalin or in reality (Joseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) and ends with Boris Yeltsin who is now dead and orchestrated the 1994 and 1999 conflicts. It is so easy to point Putin as the so-called `boogeyman' ... because he is ex-KGB ... well half of the Brits' politicos have ties to MI6.
And let's not also forget Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, an early Obama adviser/promoter (and an exiled anti-Russian Pole of Canadian origen) ... the Former Carter NSA Chief and President Bush I the ex-CIA director mainly responsible for the creation of AQ and Chechens fighting alongside Bin Laden and the Taleban 1990s-today (ya know the ones we supported in the 1st Afghan Conflict vs. Soviet Russia, who took out the Twin Towers). Point the fingers in your own backyards for once and take responsibility for the slaughter of 1.5 million dead Iraqi civilians and 8 million Vietnamese and God cannot even count the 10s of millions the Brits helped pushed to genocide during Indian Independence 1948-49 ... Muslim vs. Hindu. We bath in blood everyday, but always Russia and China the `bad guys' until we need their money and oil. Ex-KGB ... indeed ... Neo-Liberal-Neo-Cons one in the same and to the same ends!
lolwat?
[info]yngvarr wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 03:00 am (UTC)
Most abused population in the world?

Can you say "They still practice slavery"? They do.
all lies
[info]dparkins3 wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 06:27 am (UTC)
Not a true word in this commentary except America and European destroying the Russian economy. A question: does Mr Zakayev think of the hundreds of thousands of Russians murdered and enslaved in Chechnya after the fall of the Soviet Union at night. Does Mr Zakayev still remember the training he recieved in Azerbaijan and Turkey courtesy of the USA in an attempt to fuel the breakdown of Russia?
The situation is complicated
[info]living_fossil wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 06:38 am (UTC)
When they are supplying our gas the situation gets complicated. But there's more than that. It is like China and Tibet. Human rights are secondary to economic ones in these harsh times. It's easy to forget the cold spell but for many old folk dependant on affordable gas it is important any transition to large-scale electric heating in the UK is gradual & economic. The building of nuclear power stations will take many years. This will mean we will be dealing with Putin & his heirs for sometime to come and for the sake of the old & vulnerable here lets keep perspective. The UK/US directly responsible for 650,000 deaths in Iraq according to the Lancet and you are concerning yourself with the misery of a few dozens at most.(thieving mobster oligarchs, crooked politicans and bought journalists as Putin & many ordinary Russians would see them?) These could be considered surgical casualtys, key-hole surgery on the Russian states adversories whilst the UK/US is still dealing with the overspill from its splatter movie in Iraq. Perhaps a little less 'holier than thou' wouldn't go amiss? I'm sure the ordinary Russian readers would agree?
Good article Mr Hari
[info]zippo70 wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 08:02 am (UTC)
Good article Mr Hari. Interesting to see the knee-jerk pro Putin stooges crawl out of the woodwork at the merest hint of criticism of Putin's Russia.

It is not anti Russian to object to Putin's government, and it is also not anti Russian to point out the atrocities committed in Chechnya, often by both sides. Russia is a great nation, however, its rulers, be they autocratic Tsars or Bolshevik lunatics, have a track record with little to be proud about.

Also it is a poor defence of the Putin position and feeble arguing skills to drone on about what other nations have done. This article is about dissidents in Russia, not about anything else. Plenty of articles have criticised the US, Britain etc etc. THIS ONE IS ABOUT RUSSIA.
Re: Good article Mr Hari
[info]living_fossil wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 08:58 am (UTC)
This world is not made by its leaders but by the fools who follow them. You speak of Putins Russia as if you could isolate it in a test-tube and analyse it objectively. You cannot even see your own error. We have a arrangment of states in the world that reveals much blood under the carpet but little innocence. What standard can be applied in this situation other than don't cross swords with the men in power? There is a time to fight the good fight but that begins at home because the real nazis are non-desripts who may be your neighbour today and your butcher tommorow. These ordinary folk will have no grand political analysis but their arguments may hold impact. Don't fear Putin like he's got all his angry young men on a leash. Fear the angry young men in your own locality before you do that. They are certainly not on a leash. That capitialization of yours betrays a lack of objective integrity by the way.
Re: Good article Mr Hari
[info]cupkatething wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 12:43 pm (UTC)
'This world is not made by its leaders but by the fools who follow them'

That is easier said than carried out with the atmosphere of terror that has permeated Russian society. Surely that is a simplistic understanding of the machinery that enables leaders to reach their position...?
[info]stavropigian wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 08:54 am (UTC)
Hm, I see Mr. Zakayev has not cared to mention the abuses he and his fellow Chechen 'independence fighters' had meted out both to their fellow Chehchens and Russians living in Chechnia (before abyone cries out 'colonists' the Terek cossacks have lived in the Sunzha area for hundreds of years). Nor has Mr. Litvinenko ever mentioned why he saw fit to collaborate with a man like Mr. Berezovsky and still continue to call himself an honest man. Mr. Hari clearly accepts their stories at face value, without attempting to enquire into their veracity. It is not Russia's dissidents that deserve our help, but the Independent's journalists. Open a hotline, anyone?
[info]bomba wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 09:13 am (UTC)
yeah, what a bunch of bullshit. As far as Chechnya is concerned, it did gain de-facto independence after the first Chenchen war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War). However, those good-natured guys couldn't enjoy the independence for a long term, they simply hadn't any ideas about what to do with it, knowing only how to wage a war. Not surprisingly, that was exactly what they did next - they made a raid to a nearby Russian republic of Dagestan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Dagestan_(1999)). This makes it seem reasonable that Russia had to send its troops to Chechnya (which formally still belonged to Russia) again in order to wipe out the uneasy warlords incapable of living in peace with neighbors and to ensure the security of people in Russian republics bordering Chechnya along with Chechen civillians. For the future, I would advise the author to do some research before making any unsubstantiated statements.
And this bloke in the pub told me...
[info]giuseppesapone wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 09:43 am (UTC)
This is the same kind of stuff we based the illegal invasion of iraq on. Oh, and if I recall Hari was gung-ho for the Iraq invasion.
[info]bomba wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 10:03 am (UTC)
except that no US people were killed in Iraq before the invasion. Chechenian raids became notorious due to the number of casualties among Russian civilians. It would be narrowly-minded to think that the reasons behind every invasion are the same, say, economically-based (I really doubt that Chechnya has any economical value to Russia). Sometimes you really have to be closer to certain people to keep them in check for your OWN safety.
We must choose to protect them, or let them be picked off on our streets
[info]ruslan63 wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 10:50 am (UTC)
"Zakayev is a Chechen, and his people have been pounded by Putin and his predecessors for too long." - it's the lie.It is lie. Chechens have started to kill and abduct unchechens in the end of 80-s'. Zakaev the ordinary gangster. Why asking opinion Zakaev, your newspaper will not ask those hundred thousand people run from the Chechen Republic? People ran from murders, a robbery and violence. It has begun at Gorbachev so favourite by West. You protect gangsters, whether so it is necessary to be surprised to support which was received by Putin and Medvedev.
You're a fool, Hari - a gullible buffoon
[info]neil_mcgowan wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 10:53 am (UTC)
Akhmed Zakayev was the official spokesman for Shamil Basaev. Who? The man who committed the Beslan School massacre. It was Zakayev who made the phone-calls - sitting safely in the UK - accepting responsibility for the atrocity. Over 300 schoolchildren died in the incident.

And Johann The Fool Hari wants our sympathy for this man?? That's quite separate of course from the 100+ counts of murder on which Zakayev is wanted in Russia as a Chechen terrorist.

Basaev's most legendary stunt was machine-gunning a maternity ward of pregnant women. They were, by the way, Chechen women - Basaev didn't mind murdering his own people at all.

There are things which are wrong with Putin's Russia. Painting the murderers of schoolchildren isn't the way to address those problems, Johann.

You really have "gullible twat" written all the way down your spine, don't you? Ooops, I forgot - you don't have a spine any more.
Re: You're a fool, Hari - a gullible buffoon
[info]maxmillerfan wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 12:44 pm (UTC)
It is simply untrue that Zakayev was the spokesman for Basaev, and you should apologize for that disgusting false statement.
Re: You're a fool, Hari - a gullible buffoon
[info]neil_mcgowan wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 12:58 pm (UTC)
You are utterly wrong.

Zakayev was Basaev's official spokesman. He is a wanted terrorist in Russia.

Britain gave him asylum "in revenge" when Putin refused to commit troops in Iraq.
Bad article
[info]aristocles2 wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 01:22 pm (UTC)
If you advise a human rights organisation you are guilty of 'high treason'?

Is that a fact? Any primary source for this info?

'he is a member of the Russian parliament and celebrated by Putin', Zakayev said'.

If Zakayev said it, it must be true. Celebrated by Putin? How? Russia and Britain do not have an extradition treaty, so it is hypocritical to expect them to deport Lugavoi. But the Russians offered to try him in Russia if the British give them enough evidence, but the British have refused to co-operate.

Litvinenko had links with organised crime in Russia, the Ukraine and Italy. Lovely chap. And he met Lugavoi at a party held by Berezovsky.

In further news: the British 'opposition' has supported the government in refusing to comply with the freedom of information act and release the minutes of their meeting in the run up to the Iraq conflict. Anything to say on that?
UK owes a huge apology to Russia
[info]pordus wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 01:38 pm (UTC)
UK/US and all other countries that supported and continue to support Chechen terrorists (UK is #1 of them) owe a huge apology to Russia. They do so in their hope of dividing/disintegrating/weakening Russia. This is how most Russians see that and this discredits these governments and their proclaimed "democratic values".
A hint for British investigators and "free press"
[info]pordus wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 01:55 pm (UTC)
If you look for killers of Litvinenko and possibly Politkovskaya, their are safely hiding in Britain... protected by "political refugee" status. Their local Czar (or should I say King) has last name that starts from letter B.

Now, you should carefully investigate this "lead" and find out the other letters in this name.

Readers who know the answer already please do not help them.
Re: A hint for British investigators and "free press"
[info]faustovo wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 09:20 pm (UTC)
second letter E :)
and its name is like russian tree what have association with Russia :)
Re: A hint for British investigators and "free press"
[info]pordus wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 10:43 pm (UTC)
Shhhhhh...

This is a tough one and, obviously, they have no clue of where to look for an answer.
Don't say too much, I would like to see how long it will take them to figure it out...
A year, two,

... or 50 years after some secret governmental
discussions will be finally made public,... talking about British
government's transparency:)
Great article
[info]tahmeena wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 03:50 pm (UTC)
I agree with zippo70. Though there is usually quite a lot of anti-Russian sentiment in the media, its not anti-Russian to criticise the actions of the Russian state. And Chechnyans are not terrorists- they are freedom fighters.

After the theatre siege, Russians took to the streets demanding freedom for Chechnya, argung that the situation there was the reason for such events. If a people are oppressed- they will rise up. If there is any violence inflicted on Russia, which is little compared to that on Chechnya, then it is because Russian state has sewn the seeds of theor own destructio. You cannot kill and not expect to be killed. Its not justifying deaths of civilians, not at all, but it's the way of the world, and it doesn't change.

Freedom for Chechnya!
Re: Great article
[info]pordus wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 04:57 pm (UTC)
- they are freedom fighters

Just as much as Taliban/Al-Qaida fighters are in Afghanistan. Note that the first thing those "freedom fighters" did when they got control over Chechnya in the early 90s, was replacing civil laws with "charia" laws and enforcing on governmental level fundamentalist forms of religion (Wahhabism) that was never practiced by Chechens in the past. These were extreme fundamentalists who made in to power in Chechnya in the atmosphere of political power vacuum in USSR before its collapse in the early 90s. UK/US widely supported these fundamentalists (religious extremist) as much as they supported fundamentalists in Afghanistan in the 80s.

Now UK/US fight with these same extremists in Afghanistan but still support those whose from Chechnya...
Re: Great article
[info]pordus wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 06:31 pm (UTC)
NO to hiding former terrorists!

NO to profound hypocrisy in British government and media!!!!

Dear Brits, did not you have enough of it already? Do you still trust what your government does and tells you? Do something NOW.
Re: Great article
[info]neil_mcgowan wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 11:58 pm (UTC)
" After the theatre siege, Russians took to the streets demanding freedom for Chechnya "

WHAT?????????

What a pack of idiotic lies.

Best Regards from Moscow (where such demonstrations NEVER occurred)
Re: Great article
[info]bomba wrote:
Thursday, 26 February 2009 at 07:21 am (UTC)
if you care to follow the links I gave above you will have a chance to educate yourself on Checnhya's history. Chechens got their freedom after the first Chechen war. Just because they are not exactly freedom fighters they were uncomfortable with the freedom they suddenly obtained and made a raid in Dagestan, which initiated the second Chechen war. It takes so little time to read at least something on the subject, I wonder why you people don't do that?
take them all to England
[info]figador wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 04:36 pm (UTC)
Poor chechenians! I propose to take all those dissidents to England.
Russians would probably pay at least half of the movement costs, since this would strongly improve criminal situation in Russia.
Johann Hari: We can't allow Russia's dissidents to be killed on Europe's streets
[info]garvardt wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 05:55 pm (UTC)
1. Zakaev doesn't look here with grief soaked eyes - http://lenta.ru/lib/14159623/
He is actually a theatre actor by profession. During Chechen conflict he actually was a separatist commandor. I am not saying that he did the following below, but one of the same separatists Arbi Baraev cut heads off three British and one New Zealander telephone engineers
http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=74608
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/chechen--who-killed-britons-is-murdered-murdered-675545.html
I am not even mentioning how many Russians they kidnapped and cut off heads, they cut off kidnapped girls' fingers.
I am not saying that all Chechens are like that, but you announce innocent all Chechens including these bandits who killed people just because they were of other nation and religion,
These bandits attacked neighbouring regions, blow up houses with hundreds of people and schools with hundreds of children, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Xf2P92fS8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBHLXMQfCDw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKONBwH5qVo

2 I couldn't find in the internet any links to this press conference, when and where, should be photos of them together?
3 The big conflict with chechens was started in tsar times in 19th century, Stalin (Georgian by nationality) sent to Kazakhstan and Kirgizstan not only Chechens, but lots of other nations, my grandparents Germans for example, were sent from Krimea to Kazakhstan in September 1941 and never came back.
4 Putin and Litvinenko are not KGB agents they were KGB officers, one was lucky to become a president, another became a betrayer for money and died in London probably trying to sell the radioactive chemical substances
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litvinenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putin
Both are not saints, neither Putin nor Litvinenko.

5 Chechnya has always been republic even in Sovjet times
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chechnya

6 Anna Politkovskaya was not known widely in Russia until she was killed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politkovskaya
Those who were acquitted last week were Chechens by nationality. Ones of this poor abused nation, as you said.
Today in Russia you can tell anything, nobody listens to you, nothing is taken seriously,
If she was killed so only because she got involved in somebody's big money matter.
President Yeltsin was much worse than Putin, why she didn't criticize him?
Yeltsin started the war in Chechniya in 1994, sold out all the Russia to few oligarchs in 90-s and he was good for the West and very democratic, why? Because he almost destroyed Russia, almost fulfilled the sweetest dream of USA.

7 About gaz and Ukraine, may be Russia should sell the gaz to Ukrain with 100% advanced payment and all Europe will buy it out of Ukraine, so if Ukraine will steal the gaz it will be not Russian gaz anymore, but European gaz, and Russia will have a look how will you talk about democracy then.
Do Your Homework Johann Hari and Just Where Are the Iraqi WMDs?
[info]jozzyoz01 wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 07:27 pm (UTC)
Zakayev compare to freedom fighter is like comparing Bin Laden to free the Saudi nation of Americans and Mecca from the `unholy infidel crusaders.' Do your homework Johann Hari and where are the Iraqi WMDs? ... back in Russia I guess - right? British Hypocrisy! How many Hindus and Muslims died because of British fueling violence in pre-independent Indian Subcontinent? 10s of millions - and now he grieves for the Stalinized Chechens ... look in your own back yard and all the societies the Brits and Europeans exploited and murdered and destroyed - they number in the 1000s of cultures around the world!!!
Independed...
[info]faustovo wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 09:29 pm (UTC)
...from mind article
I read translate on inosmi.ru - author you make furor, many people write thay cry reading your article. They cry from laught. Some of them remember "Pravda", look like author work before.
Re: Independed...
[info]faustovo wrote:
Wednesday, 25 February 2009 at 09:57 pm (UTC)
btw, guardian closed comments :) democracy...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/23/chechnya-day-world
Iraq
[info]colinnnnnnn wrote:
Thursday, 26 February 2009 at 06:27 am (UTC)
I stopped believing Mr Hari when he told us the people of Iraq want to be bombed.
Extraordinay response
[info]steve_bender wrote:
Friday, 27 February 2009 at 11:21 pm (UTC)
I don't think I'll ever post on another forum again after viewing the bizarre responses here.

In fact if you look at most international forums these days there is a definitive pattern when criticism is made of Russia.

It seems some people are unable to face the past, the present or the future which is unfortunate, because Russians will continue to suffer exclusion until they do.

Columnist Comments

andrew_grice

Andrew Grice: Enough of the philosophy, Mr Cameron.

Think-tanks play an important role in politics. But they have their limits.

christina_patterson

Christina Patterson: Very nice - but forgiveness is overrated

Sometimes, as Lydon sang, in his post Sex Pistols band, ‘anger is an energy.

mary_dejevsky

Mary Dejevsky: Why not call Blair now and wrap it up?

The enquiry already seems like a sideline as the queues dwindle.


Loading...


Most popular in Opinion