July 31, 2007 (LPAC)--Alexander Prokhanov, the sharp-penned editor of the Russian weekly Zavtra, gave some depth to current Russian anger against Britain in his editorial column in the July 25 issue. In a lead paragraph he bundled together four centuries of British actions, hostile to Russia. The result makes a striking contrast with the recently published series of articles by State Duma member Alexander Fomenko, who looked back through two centuries of Russian-American relations and wrote about the numerous episodes of collaboration between the two great continental powers, including against the British.

"The Anglo-Saxons are Russia's age-old enemies," wrote Prokhanov. "England is an indefagitable intriguer and warrior, always wishing Russia ill. English agents, disguised as merchants, infiltrated Muscovy under Ivan Grozny. Under Peter [the Great], the English fleet attacked areas in Pomorye. People in the hire of the English strangled the Emperor Paul, thus preventing Russia from moving into India. Under Nicholas I, the English launched the Crimean War, and temporarily eliminated Russia's presence on the Black Sea. Skobelev's Khiva and Bukhara campaigns met with English resistance in Central Asia. Agents of English influence murdered Rasputin, whom they believed to be the head of the 'German party.' The English King George refused to take in the deposed Nicholas II, thus condemning him to death. English and Entente troops landed in Arkhangelsk, and occupied Tiflis. The English nurtured Hitler and hurled him against Soviet Russia. Churchill began the Cold War at Fulton, while Margaret Thatcher finished that Cold War, blessing the traitor Gorbachov to break up the USSR. During perestroika and Yeltsin's tenure, Russia was teeming with English agents, who had penetrated the upper echelons of power. The English, with their constant influence in the Middle East, were the covert `'operators' of the financial flows out of Saudi Arabia to [Chechen insurgents] Basayev and Maskhadov. It is no surprise, that today it is Britain, which is on the cutting edge of the sophisticated operation called the Litvinenko Affair, aimed at demonizing Russia and Putin."