| America must bear responsibility for Russia's problems. This was stated on the American Fox News channel by Republican Congressman Curt Weldon, who has been dealing with the problems of the USSR and Russia for more than 20 years. “It’s easy to blame Putin,” he said on “Is the US Entering a New Cold War with Russia?” “But we have to understand why the Russians do what they do, and to what extent we ourselves should bear the blame.” responsibility for the course they choose." According to the congressman, Washington's neglect of Russia led to the growing distrust of Russians towards Americans.
Curt Weldon called the resolution approved on March 29 by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives reactionary and “shortsighted”. This resolution calls for Russia's exclusion from the G8 and, according to Weldon, does not take into account the US's own culpability for Russia's problems. These problems began in the 90s, when American companies helped a bunch of “corrupt oligarchs” siphon almost $5 billion from foreign loans. “In the 90s, I made one speech after another about this corruption, but neither the White House nor Congress didn't want to talk about this topic. We pretended not to notice her.” Andrey ZLOBIN
Britain's new chief intelligence officer
Yesterday, John Scarlett, who previously headed the government's Joint Intelligence Committee, was appointed head of MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence service. His predecessor Richard Dearlove will teach at Cambridge. Scarlett and Dearlove are co-authors of a report on weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein allegedly possessed but never found. Based on this document, London took part in the invasion of Iraq. In 1991-1994, Scarlett was an adviser to the British Embassy in Moscow. He left this post after a scandal involving the recruitment of a Russian defense worker. "TIME FOR NEWS"
Internet scammers from the former USSR
British police yesterday arrested 12 citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Latvia and Estonia who defrauded clients of such major banks as Barclays, Lloyds TCB and NatWest. They sent fake letters to depositors on behalf of banks, in which they asked to “clarify” their data in connection with the installation of a new security system. The letters contained links to an Internet page that looked like a bank's website, where customers were asked to enter credit card numbers and passwords. The fraudsters (their names have not been released) stole several hundred thousand pounds, which, according to police, ended up in the accounts of a criminal group in Russia. In 2003, this type of theft caused damage to the kingdom's banks in the amount of 60 million pounds ($108 million). "TIME FOR NEWS"
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