MP's Russian aide 'not a threat to security' (From Daily Echo)
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Mike Hancock's Russian aide Katia Zatuliveter 'not a threat to security'
9:45am Tuesday 29th November 2011 in News
MP Mike Hancock, who employed Russian Katia Zatuliveter, leaves his Hampshire home
A HAMPSHIRE MP's former parliamentary aide accused of being a Russian spy, has won her battle to remain in the UK.
Katia Zatuliveter, 26, convinced the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) that she was not liaising with Russian spies while working for MP Mike Hancock, a member of the Defence Select Committee, with whom she had an affair.
Despite not being allowed to attend large parts of the Siac hearing - much of it held behind closed doors with evidence from security services spies - Zatuliveter convinced the panel she was not a danger to national security.
Mike Hancock is the Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth South.
Comments(12)
hampshire_chris
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10:46am Tue 29 Nov 11
hulla baloo
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10:46am Tue 29 Nov 11
MSK
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10:52am Tue 29 Nov 11
Linesman
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11:07am Tue 29 Nov 11
hulla baloo wrote:I don't think that it was strings that she was pulling!
hmm. strings, pull and high places with friends.
Sovietobserver
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12:02pm Tue 29 Nov 11
Goldenwight
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12:02pm Tue 29 Nov 11
But thank you Echo for pointing out that 'parliamentary aide' is a euphemism for 'mistress.'
Taskforce 141
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12:04pm Tue 29 Nov 11
voiceinthecrowd
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12:18pm Tue 29 Nov 11
Where is the justice.........
Sovietobserver
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12:38pm Tue 29 Nov 11
Taskforce 141 wrote:It is a well known fact that Russian women prefer sober, successful, intelligent men regardless of their age difference and looks, and why.
Well something fishy was going on here. I mean she is a young, fairly attractive women and he is an oversized garden gnome...
Young Russian guys live for vodka and have more respect for their 4 x 4's than their women.
Scrutinizer
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2:46pm Tue 29 Nov 11
Scrutinizer
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3:08pm Tue 29 Nov 11
Sovietobserver wrote:Yes, I agree. But Russian (and Ukrainian women too) do tend to have a serious bias mainly for blokes with plenty of dosh. I had to laugh once, a Ukrainian female friend of mine tried to set me up with a friend of hers, as in trying to persuade me to take her on as a wife. The way she described her assets to me was as if she was trying to sell me a prize sow at the market! Naturally being British and fussy I declined. "Oh and she has a great sense of humour too", my friend said. "That maybe", I replied, but personally I can't fancy anything with a fifth best in show rosette pinned to it's ear and a ring through it's snout... Apart from that rumour has it they snore in bed. ;-)
Taskforce 141 wrote: Well something fishy was going on here. I mean she is a young, fairly attractive women and he is an oversized garden gnome...It is a well known fact that Russian women prefer sober, successful, intelligent men regardless of their age difference and looks, and why. Young Russian guys live for vodka and have more respect for their 4 x 4's than their women.
RichardCoughlan says...
10:28am Tue 29 Nov 11