Russia´s free pass to undermine British democracy | Nick Cohen
(The Guardian Russia)

The Tories want to ignore Putin´s Brexit role and Labour is complicit with Putin´s mafia stateYou´d never guess it, but Britain is a lucky country. Across the democratic world, Russia pursues its interests by corrupting elections with black propaganda. But in their insouciance, our government and intelligence services show dear old Blighty has no reason to worry. On the rare occasions it bothers to discuss the subject, the British state says `it can´t happen here`, even though `it` is happening everywhere else.The FBI is investigating how Russia hacked the Clinton campaign and used Facebook and Twitter to spread fake news. Ukrainians are preparing for the next stage of resistance to Russian forces. European foreign ministries and intelligence services have finally understood that Russia´s imperial strategy is to weaken the EU and Nato in every country except, it seems, this sceptred isle. Continue reading...