New Soviet Union or why did they EVEN bother to change it to the Russian Federation?

YES, MY DEAR IDIOTS...THE SOVIETS ARE BACK ON OUR BACKS, SOON WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER REVOLUTION...FIRST WE WILL COMFORTABLY REMOVE OUR OPPONENTS THEN WE WILL RENAME ALL THOSE LITTLE FUCK-COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER, MIGHTY SOVIET EMPIRE BACK TO THEIR SOCIALIST ADJECTIVES. FOR EXAMPLE: CESKOSLOVENSKA SOCIALISTICKA REPUBLIKA, ETC.
MEANWHILE OUR BOSS, THE BLACK BELT ASSHOLE HAVE TO FINISH HIS KGB EDUCATION BY MEETING WITH THE CRIMINAL COMMUNIST PARTY - THIS TIME OPENLY - JUST TO REMIND THE WHOLE WORLD - THAT THINGS AIN'T AS THEY LOOK LIKE...
SO REPACK YOUR LITTLE BACKPACKS, MY DEAR IDIOTS - IT IS TIME TO HITCHHIKE TO ANOTHER GALAXY...


Russian rights lawyer 'poisoned'

Russian human rights lawyer Karinna Moskalenko represents the family of Anna Politskovskaya

French police have opened an inquiry into allegations that a prominent Russian human rights lawyer may have been poisoned in Strasbourg on Monday.

Karina Moskalenko, who represents some of the Kremlin's best known critics, fell ill after finding a substance similar to mercury inside her car.

She and members of her family were later treated for nausea and headaches.

Prosecutors said there had not been enough of the substance to endanger life, but that more tests were needed.

Ms Moskalenko's clients include the jailed former Russian oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the family of the murdered journalist, Anna Politkovskaya.

The lawyer said on Tuesday that her illness had meant she was unable to travel to Moscow on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing at the trial of three men charged with Ms Politkovskaya's murder.