‘Putin’s Bankers’ Face the Music - As Cellist Hits Sour Note

Four bankers go on trial in Zurich on March 8 for helping Vlad’s ‘wallet’

I often reflect on these words from Russia’s War on Everybody author Keir Giles:

“Messianism in Russia’s view of itself in the world goes back a long way. It’s one of the compensation mechanisms for Russians who realize the deep and insoluble misery of their own existence and so look for something which is beyond the physical and look for spiritual mean…