Russia, it's a cancer governed by incompetent Putin

A renowned international lawyer and specialist in international law Robert Amsterdam was interviewed by an Estonian agencyERR News. He spoke about the KGB Russia. He noted in particular:

"The tragedy at Domodedovo represents a tremendous and continuing failure of government, which is called the nasty little ferret.

I call it the horizontal of incompetence as opposed the power vertical. It is rife throughout Russia. It is a cancer that is unfortunately not under any control.

I think the American reset narrative is sadly a joke, and I think it's lulled many people into a false sense of security, because from a foreign policy standpoint, Russia's foreign policy has been far more instrumentalized by the clan structure than people realize. It's become highly mercantilistic and to that extent quite aggressive. We're seeing what I call this form of "corruption diplomacy" occurring throughout Europe.

The US financially has turned into a morass in the last number of years, its eyes have not been on its foreign-policy ball. I think the US has suffered tragically since "the war on terror" began, and I have concerns as to how the US will ever recover from that.

Until Medvedev not gets control of the FSB, nothing is going to happen. There's no way a rational person would be able to predict that occurring.

The increase in the price of oil is a terrible negative in respect to the possibility of Russian reform. The clans exert a tremendous amount of control because the Russian state has been captured by many of these groups who use the Russian state to further their particular interests".

Department of Monitoring