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You must be a cynic to be able to suspect the Russian officials in any wrongdoing in those days. Let?s say that a certain secret service (the French, for example) arranged to lure Osama bin Laden to Paris, promising the Saudi terrorist that he will meet in Paris with his Muslim brothers and in the meeting they will discuss how to demolish the Eiffel Tower with a stolen Soviet mini-nuke. Who, do you think, fits the bill? You guessed it, the infamous “Merchant of Death” and “Lord of War” on the same plane and in the same taxi and checked into the same hotel, but in reality did not want to help the latter to sell “portable anti-aircraft missiles” to the blood-thirsty narco-dealers from FARC – he only wanted to see Bangkok and to have a chance to see the Louvre, and the Eiffel Tower (before it is nuked). That said, I can assure you that even though the Russian Consul attended every court hearing, the Thai judges were not “pressured” by the Russian delegation. In fact, these efforts yielded some result in the initial stage of the case – at one point I noticed that Victor’s