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Matt Kennard
Matt Kennard

@kennardmatt

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Buried history. MI6 was approached by Russian intelligence in London in 2000 for help getting Putin elected in imminent elections. MI6 agreed and sent PM Tony Blair to attend opera with Putin in St Petersburg. I got Blair's briefing notes for the trip. 👇
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Revealed: UK ignored Chechnya war crimes to push BP’s oil interests as it worked to get Vladimir Putin elected in 2000
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Revealed: UK ignored Chechnya war crimes to push BP’s oil interests as it worked to get Vladimir Putin elected in 2000

The British government sought, in 2000, to integrate Putin’s Russia into the Western-ruled economic...
Blair and Putin struck up an extraordinary bond over next 7 years. As Putin was smashing up Chechnya in a horrific military campaign, Blair increased UK weapons export licences for Russia by 550%.
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When Tony Blair backed Putin’s brutal war
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When Tony Blair backed Putin’s brutal war

Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin struck up an extraordinary bond in the early 2000s as Russia engaged i...
Root of UK support for Putin was Russian oil, which they wanted to win for BP.
Putin was same guy then - the Chechen campaign was even more savage than Ukraine - but he was playing ball with West. And BP was making money. This is what drives policy.
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Under Putin, MI6-linked BP extracted Russian oil worth ÂŁ271 billion
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Under Putin, MI6-linked BP extracted Russian oil worth ÂŁ271 billion

UK oil behemoth BP built an empire in Russia during Vladimir Putin’s rule, with the help of the Brit...

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