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The Wall Street Journal raised plenty of eyebrows when they recently reported that United States intelligence agencies do not believe that Vladimir Putin gave the order to have Alexei Navalny murdered in a labor camp located near the Arctic Circle. Many seasoned foreign policy analysts quickly weighed in, saying that the odds of someone at the camp going rogue and doing such a thing without getting the go-ahead from Mad Vlad would have been very low. But it’s no longer simply critics in the West questioning the story. Even the Kremlin has issued a statement saying that the report was nonsensical. They aren’t flatly claiming that Putin personally ordered the killing, but they’re not really denying it either. (Daily Beast)
Russia has dismissed a report claiming Vladimir Putin did not order the killing of famed dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison in February.
Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, told Russia’s state-run media on Saturday that he had seen the Wall Street Journal report, which cited an assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies, and that there was little reason to believe it. He derided its logic and said it wasn’t worth looking into.
“I would not say that this is high-quality material that deserves any attention.
