{"id":82440,"date":"2018-03-11T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/softly-softly-isnt-working-time-to-play-hard-with-russians-in-uk-oliver-bullough\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T07:02:55","slug":"softly-softly-isnt-working-time-to-play-hard-with-russians-in-uk-oliver-bullough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/softly-softly-isnt-working-time-to-play-hard-with-russians-in-uk-oliver-bullough\/","title":{"rendered":"Softly-softly isn\u2019t working. Time to play hard with Russians in UK | Oliver Bullough"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nAfter the Salisbury poisonings, it\u2019s time to tell Putin\u2019s inner circle that they are no longer welcome hereWe need to recap briefly the similarities between Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal, because they are stark.Both served in the Russian security services; both faced prosecution in Russia; both found sanctuary in Britain; both co-operated with British intelligence agencies. And both were attacked with rare poisons, of kinds available only to governments. The only important difference is that Litvinenko\u2019s murderers were successful, while Skripal is still fighting for his life. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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After the Salisbury poisonings, it\u2019s time to tell Putin\u2019s inner circle that they are no...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-lrG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":98842,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/forget-the-pledges-to-act-london-is-still-a-haven-for-dirty-russian-money-oliver-bullough\/","url_meta":{"origin":82440,"position":0},"title":"Forget the pledges to act \u2013 London is still a haven for dirty Russian money | Oliver Bullough","date":"September 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r After Salisbury, the Tories said we would get tough on rich Russians. 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