tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post3243674778843964933..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: The Mailbag: A Reader on LugovoiLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-11893802493750686392007-06-04T10:10:00.000-04:002007-06-04T10:10:00.000-04:00Very good points Pat - I wish the information you ...Very good points Pat - I wish the information you provide was more widely known. I just believed the Russians when they said the consitution forbad extradition... and the Western press when they repeated it.<BR/><BR/>Whoops. Silly me. I should have known better. Never take things as face value when you are dealing with the Russians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-5813439599678947802007-06-04T05:58:00.000-04:002007-06-04T05:58:00.000-04:00Thanks for the comment! We've analyzed this topic...Thanks for the comment! We've analyzed this topic here:<BR/><BR/>http://publiuspundit.com/articles/2007/05/lying_about_the_russian_consti.php<BR/><BR/>It's truly frightening that the people of Russia are prepared to allow the creation of another through-the-looking-glass state where laws mean nothing but what the Kremlin says they mean.La Russophobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-18584186614153603062007-06-04T01:25:00.000-04:002007-06-04T01:25:00.000-04:00On a related matter, from a BBC report Monday:"Rus...On a related matter, from a BBC report Monday:<BR/><BR/>"Russia's constitution did not permit it to hand over citizens and British prosecutors' competence was in doubt if they had not known that, Mr Putin said."<BR/><BR/>The Russian Constitution article 63.2:<BR/><BR/>"The extradition of persons charged with crimes and also the hand-over of convicts for serving time in other countries shall be effected on the basis of the federal law or international treaty of the Russian Federation."<BR/><BR/>European Convention on Extradition (as co-signed by Russia), Article 1:<BR/><BR/>"The Contracting Parties undertake to surrender to each other, subject to the provisions and conditions laid down in this Convention, all persons against whom the competent authorities of the requesting Party are proceeding for an offence or who are wanted by the said authorities for the carrying out of a sentence or detention order."<BR/><BR/>After lying, in effect, Putin even conceded in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that he had consulted with the Prosecutor General, whose responsibility it is to assess the validity of an extradition case.<BR/>For the record, I find it inconceivable that the Russian government had anything to do with the organisation of the murder of a low-level former FSB functionary. But Putin's pride, arrogance and dishonesty over the extradition issue makes him complicit after the fact at the very least. No British politician has stooped to making such absurd and imflammatory remarks, no British prosecutor has attempted to make a case for politically motivated assassination, which makes Putin's remarks ill-judged in the extreme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com