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“...The entire Russian political elite consists of criminals... the foreign policy of Russia is based on those same criminal methods as its domestic policy: lies, force, intimidation and provocation. Putin is a criminalized Chekist who has fully accepted the traditions of the criminal world.” | Russian-based website showing thousands of hacked live feeds - Google Search | British Watchdog Wants Russian Hacking Site Shut | Q&A: Who is watching my home webcam?

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 Thousands of internet-connected CCTV cameras and baby monitors are streaming their video so that anyone can watch them online without their owners knowledge. Photograph: Alamy West has Means Short of War to Stop Putin in Ukraine, Eidman Says   by Paul Goble Thursday November 20 th , 2014  at  12:47 PM The InterpreterThe Interpreter 1 Share Staunton, November 20  – Sectoral sanctions are not enough to stop Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, and no one in the West wants to fight a war against Russia. But because of the nature of the Russian elite, including Putin, the West has a means of stopping Putin in his tracks, a means it has not yet deployed,  according to Igor Eidman . The Russian analyst, who now lives in Germany, says that “the entire Russian political elite consists of criminals in terms not only of Russian law but even more that of Western countries.” Thus, he says, “the West could declare them criminals and seize [their] holdi