Paul
Goble
Staunton, December 14 – One out of
every five Russians who chose to take part in a poll conducted by EurAsia
Daily, a portal devoted to foreign policy questions and attracting
specialists, said they favored sending agents to deal with WADA officials after
the latter banned Russian athletes for using and concealing their use of
performance-enhancing drugs.
Visitors to the portal (eadaily.com/ru/poll/) were offered five choices,
ranging from ignoring the WADA decision to taking executive action, US-based
Russian journalist Kseniya Kirillova says.
What is disturbing is that so many of those taking part favored the
latter (kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5DF4F32EACF9F).
Over the course of three days this
week, the journalist says, the site reported that 3905 people had visited to
record their views. Seven percent chose
the softest option – “simply protest and forget the next four years, ten
percent voted for a policy that would declare all functionaries of WADA and the
International Olympic Committee persona non grata.
The largest share – 61.4 percent –
said they favored “breaking all contracts for televising he championships and
launching investigations into the actions of the WADA bureaucrats.” But 21.4 percent said they were for what
Kirillova called “the most savage” response – “dispatching two tourists to
visit the Montreal cathedral.”
This phrase, as the journalist
points out, echoes the words used by the two GRU killers who were sent to
Britain to attack former GRU officer Sergey Skripal and his daughter but who
told British authorities that they were “tourists who had come to Salisbury out
of curiosity about the gothic cathedral.”
A new Russian board game, “Ours in
Salisbury,” always uses those words in its description of the game’s “heroes”
as they travel through Europe. Clearly, these terms have now spread into the
population and the slogan “We can do it again” not applies not just to World
War II “but to political murders in Western countries.”
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