A man arrested in northern Russia has been charged with cannibalism, after three partially eaten murder victims were identified along with remains of cats, dogs and smaller animals///BBC NEWS
The 51-year-old is suspected of having eaten the animals as well as the three men, whom he had befriended and plied with alcohol.
When the victims dozed off he allegedly stabbed them and chopped them up.
Bones were found in bags left in a lake and river near the city of Arkhangelsk.
He is reported to be mentally sound. He already had a criminal record, but the SK – Russia’s version of the FBI – has not named him.
The murders allegedly took place in 2016-2017, but the SK says it took a long time to identify the victims. Two had no traceable relatives, while the third was long believed to have moved to another town in search of work. The body parts found were not identifiable without forensic tests.
The SK statement says that “besides cannibalism, the accused regularly killed and ate cats, dogs and other small animals and birds, whose bones were found in the bags mixed up with human bones”.
The suspect reportedly moved into the flat of the victim who he claimed had gone looking for work in another town. He told the man’s parents that before going away the man had agreed to let him look after the flat.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Angola’s President Joao Lourenco, after their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. Ahead of the Russia Africa Summit on October 23, 2019, President Putin has promised African countries investments and support for the continent’s causes in global political forums. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Russia has been a major supplier of weapons and military equipment to African nations and the country’s arms exporter hopes the first Russia-Africa summit will help further boost business on the continent.
This year alone, nine countries including Rwanda, Mozambique and Angola are set to receive Russian arms.
Observers say Moscow has been skillfully using a combination of arms exports and security expertise to expand its political and economic footprint in Africa.
wing off its next generation Kalashnikov assault rifles, helicopters and facial recognition systems as President Vladimir Putin hosts dozens of African leaders for a major summit in Sochi.
The Wednesday and Thursday event at the Black Sea resort has brought together delegates to discuss everything from nuclear technology to mineral extraction—but on the sidelines, stands for arms companies dominate.
Russia has been a major supplier of weapons and military equipment to African nations and the country’s arms exporter hopes the first Russia-Africa summit will help further boost business on the continent.
“We would like to expand our presence there, of course,” Rosoboronexport director Alexander Mikheev told AFP.
He said that African countries now accounted for 40 percent of the exporter’s current orders.
All 54 African states were represented at the event and Rosoboronexport said it planned to conduct meetings with the top leadership of 15 countries on the sidelines of the gathering.
A senior Russian military intelligence officer coordinated the nerve-agent attack on Sergei Skripal, a former spy, from a hotel in the heart of London, making repeated phone calls to an unregistered, prepaid Russian number, the investigative group Bellingcat says. Read More
Trump plans to meet North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone//AIWA
US President Donald Trump indicated he would be willing to meet North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. In response, North Korea released a statement saying it was a “very interesting suggestion”, but that they haven’t received an official proposal.
After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!
Trump says he’s willing to meet Kim Jong Un at the DMZ while visiting South Korea, touting his relationship with the North Korean leader. “It’s good to get along. If I didn’t become president, you’d be right now in a war with North Korea, that’s a certainty”
Asked about his tweet about meeting Sunday at the DMZ with Kim Jong Un. Says he just put out “a feeler.” Not sure Kim is available. But @POTUS wants to see the DMZ and thought it might be a chance for a brief meeting with Kim. Says North Korea has more US remains to return.
In offering to meet Kim Jong Un, @POTUS spoke with evident envy about the role of the DMZ as a border wall between North & South Korea. “That’s what they call a border. Nobody goes through that border,” he said. He didn’t mention the 800,000 landmines in the DMZ.
‘Mueller Report, a case of shadows: useful idiots and characters, secrets and spies – PUTIN |CRIMSON TAZVINZWA||
Theses are the two key players at the heart of Trump/Russia collusion, compromise: ‘naive’Carter Page and lowlife‘teaboy’ Michael Papadopoulos.
They are part of an extraordinary work of spycraft, secret sources and unlikely snitches aka Australian diplomat.
As the 2016 US presisential election was gathering steam; Republican candidate Donald J Trump’s team offoreign policy advisors got linked with Russia’s secret agents; KGB and FSB with sole intention of interfering in the election process; the ultimate goal being to have Trump enthroned as President.
What followed was a protracted Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) investigation which has since morphed into special prosecution’s wide ranging probe into Russia interference with US elections, hence ‘Mueller Russia Probe’, which apparently led to scores of individuals from within Trump circle indicted or incercerated, and others pending resolutions.
Actually, talks abound about ‘impeachment’ of the president or imprisonment according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Carter Page
He did not stand out at Merryll Lynch. “He left Merryll Lynch in 2007, when he recognised he was not going to be promoted, very naive; what was written about him in Moscow and how he behaved himself; very naive.
“Nothing close to being and informal advisor to Kremlin;
“He was a very, very medium guy in Moscow, with no exceptional relationships.
With Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian electoral interference finally complete—even though the public is still waiting to learn what it says—many Republicans are declaring it’s time to pivot back to investigating the investigators. Sen. Lindsay Graham, an erstwhile Trump critic who has reinvented himself as one of the president’s fiercest defenders, has announced his intent to lead the charge, with particular focus on whether the FBI abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to wiretap former Trump advisor Carter Page. Trump himself has vowed to release a more complete version of the FISA applications targeting Page (already public in heavily redacted form), along with related documents.
Papadopoulos
George Papadopoulos and his wife Simona Mangiante arrive for his sentencing Friday. AFP/Getty Images
‘Papa’ story goes all the way to London; the hotchy potchy pad of Russian oligarcs, got drunk silly and spilled the dried beans.
Trump says of him: “Few people knew the young, low level volunteer named George, who has already proven to be a liar,” Trump posted on Twitter shortly after 8am local time, adding: “Check the DEMS!”
MARIA BARTIROMO: “This is so extraordinary you can’t write this, so LinkedIn, they reach you on LinkedIn, they give you a job working for the center for law practices, then you say you are going to quit you want to work for Trump, they say no wait, meet Mifsud in Rome, they send you on a paid trip to Rome, you meet this guy Mifsud who we find out is also tied to intel agencies across the world, Mueller talked to him, talked about him in the report as you a Russian spy, but in fact he is very connected to Italy, then others reach out from other countries: Australia, Britain, U.S. agents, all reaching out to you in the Summer of 2016. And then somebody gives you money on one of your trips, explain that, this is now, fast forward to 2017 when someone dropped $10,000 in cash in your lap, what happened?
PAPADOPOULOS: “I actually want Congress, Barr, Horowitz, and Huber to review the bills because I still have the bills and I think they are marked,” Papadopoulos said. “These bills that are still in Athens right now must be examined by the investigators because I think they are marked and they’re going to go all the way back to DOJ, under the previous FBI under Comey, and even the Mueller team.”
Papadapoulos: I Got Caught In A Perjury Trap, It Was A Setup By US, UK, Australian Intelligence
