Gerard Batten

 
The institutions of the European Union might take note of the fact that in the Kremlin the office lights burn not only late at night, but also through the weekend. It was no surprise to me at all therefore to find a number of communications in my inbox this sunny Sunday morning, including this very interesting press release on a "draft Federal Law On Security" as submitted by President Medvedev to the State Duma.
 
 

In 2006, London MEP Gerard Batten caused great controversy when he quoted highly placed intelligence sources that denounced Romano Prodi as a "KGB asset" during Strasbourg plenary. His sources included a former deputy head of KGB, as well the dissident and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was to pay for his dissidence with his life just a few months later.
 
This week, in the same chamber, Batten made another allegation citing highly placed sources, using still classified evidence from the archives of the Gorbachev Foundation.