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It's good not to be a Russian, but first things first.

So, Sonny Bill Williams is ready to take over the reigns as the Kiwi's captain huh...

SONNY Bill Williams has been touted as the next New Zealand Test captain - and the 21-year-old Bulldogs star says he is ready to assume a leadership role.
With Ruben Wiki, Nigel Vagana and Stacey Jones announcing their international retirements after last Saturday night's golden-point Tri-Nations final loss, the Kiwis have lost a wealth of experience. Williams admitted that he and the likes of Wests Tigers playmaker Benji Marshall would have to step up next season to help fill the void.

....This begs the question - how the fuck are you supposed to captain a team that you don't even play for?

At the end of the last two seasons ol' Sonny has needed "urgent" off-season surgery for injuries which prevented him from playing the in the Tri-Nations tournament.

Injuries that convieniently didn't prevent him playing in end of season Bulldogs club matches.....

I wonder what Wiki would do in the same situation?

Meanwhile, British Airways is having to contact 33,000 passengers who travelled on the same planes that Russian president's Vladimir Putain (deliberate sic) radioactive material-toting henchmen carried to England to poison/murder his enemies.

A quarter of the 221 flights made by the three British Airways short-haul 767 aircraft between 25 October and 29 November were between London and Moscow.
British Airways said it had contacted 5,500 customers and made information about affected flights available on its website.
"The advice we have been given so far is that the health risk to anyone who has travelled on any of the three aircraft at the centre of the issue around radiation exposure is deemed to be low," it said in a statement.
BA said it was not its role to give medical advice, but referred passengers to medical service NHS Direct.

And more prominent Russians are dropping like flies:

Doctors treating former Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar, who is gravely ill, believe he was poisoned, an aide said today."Doctors don't see a natural reason for the poisoning and they have not been able to detect any natural substance known to them" in Gaidar's body, spokesman Valery Natarov said.

And don't forget about the Russian investigative journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, who was a fierce critic of Putin Russia's abuses in Chechnya, who convieniently got shot in the face by an assassin on Putin's birthday earlier this year.

She also wrote a book critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his military campaign in Chechnya, documenting widespread abuse of civilians by government troops.
And she was a persistent critic of Chechnya's Moscow-backed prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, accusing his security forces of kidnapping and torturing civilians.
"Whenever the question arose whether there is honest journalism in Russia, almost every time the first name that came to mind was Politkovskaya," said Oleg Panfilov, director of the Moscow-based Centre for Journalism in Extreme Situations.

Brings a whole new meaning to Happy birthday Mr President doesn't it.

So, on behalf of Russian freedom fighters everywhere I'd like to take this oppurtunity to say... fuck you Putin you piece of shit.