Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga

Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by cuboidGoat on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:50PM (#18080155)

To anyone who has paid attention to any of the history of Russian/UK spy scandals, the idea that homosexuality would prevent someone from being a GRU officer, is frankly almost as hilarious as some of the Russian buzzfeed style sites posting articles about how Salisbury is the center of UK gay nightlife.

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Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by obmelvin on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:37PM (#18080490)

I admit ignorance in this regard - simply restating a theory that seemed to make sense to me. I suppose being a parrot is bad, but it makes more sense to me than what the GP posted.

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Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by cuboidGoat on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @05:46PM (#18080544)

The two ideas aren't mutually exclusive. There is then the audience that knows it is all bollocks from the start, many of whom treat it as a massive in-joke that they can take part in, rather than an actual attempt at lying, which wouldn't be the case if the lying was any good.

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Re:Skripal Suspect Boshirov Identified as GRU Colonel Anatol... by romwell on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:53PM (#18097362)

Very much this; in other words - the officials are trolling the world, with their electorate in on it.

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