Title : "Daily Beast contributing editor Craig Copetas says he’s been told that Putin has people tasting his food before he eats it and that last month, he replaced his entire personal staff of 1,000 people."
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"Daily Beast contributing editor Craig Copetas says he’s been told that Putin has people tasting his food before he eats it and that last month, he replaced his entire personal staff of 1,000 people."
"'Laundresses, secretaries, cooks — to a whole new group of people. The assessment from the intelligence community is that he's scared,' Copetas said. Copetas says that the preferred method of assassination in Russia is poison..."
Here's a WaPo article from 2020, "Why poison is the weapon of choice in Putin’s Russia":
Poisoning may seem like an archaic way to kill, especially when other Kremlin critics have been gunned down. But the confusion and intrigue the method fosters may be the reason it remains in use.
“If you’re a regime that is willing to kill enemies at home and abroad, you have to decide on your priorities: ease, subtlety or theatricality,” said Mark Galeotti, director of the London-based firm Mayak Intelligence. “For the second and third, poison is often a good bet."
It's sneaky. Isn't it traditionally the murder method used by women? I see the mention of "laundresses, secretaries, cooks." He's afraid of the women — rightly! No need to call this paranoia. I don't know why the 1,000 new people would be kinder than the old 1,000.
You know I was just reading "The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" by the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov, which contains this beautifully written passage describing a poisoning:
In the evening, Boris Timofeich ate a bit of kasha with mushrooms and got heartburn; then suddenly there was pain in the pit of his stomach; he was seized with terrible vomiting, and towards morning he died, just as the rats died in his storehouses, Katerina Lvovna having always prepared a special food for them with her own hands, using a dangerous white powder entrusted to her keeping....
"[T]hey buried [him] without second thoughts, according to the Christian rule. Amazingly enough, no one thought anything of it: Boris Timofeich had died, died from eating mushrooms, as many had died from eating them....."
"'Laundresses, secretaries, cooks — to a whole new group of people. The assessment from the intelligence community is that he's scared,' Copetas said. Copetas says that the preferred method of assassination in Russia is poison..."
Here's a WaPo article from 2020, "Why poison is the weapon of choice in Putin’s Russia":
Poisoning may seem like an archaic way to kill, especially when other Kremlin critics have been gunned down. But the confusion and intrigue the method fosters may be the reason it remains in use.
“If you’re a regime that is willing to kill enemies at home and abroad, you have to decide on your priorities: ease, subtlety or theatricality,” said Mark Galeotti, director of the London-based firm Mayak Intelligence. “For the second and third, poison is often a good bet."
It's sneaky. Isn't it traditionally the murder method used by women? I see the
You know I was just reading "The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" by the Russian writer Nikolai Leskov, which contains this beautifully written passage describing a poisoning:
In the evening, Boris Timofeich ate a bit of kasha with mushrooms and got heartburn; then suddenly there was pain in the pit of his stomach; he was seized with terrible vomiting, and towards morning he died, just as the rats died in his storehouses, Katerina Lvovna having always prepared a special food for them with her own hands, using a dangerous white powder entrusted to her keeping....
"[T]hey buried [him] without second thoughts, according to the Christian rule. Amazingly enough, no one thought anything of it: Boris Timofeich had died, died from eating mushrooms, as many had died from eating them....."
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