One big drawback of being a congenital liar is that nobody takes you seriously even when you speak the truth.

Case in point: Vladimir Putin's denials that the Kremlin( and by implication himself as an individual) had anything to do with the murder of opposition Russian politician Boris Nemtsov last week.(Which incidentally triggered the usual ludicrous claims from the state media- it was the work of Islamists, it was a CIA"false flag" operation designed to discredit the government, the opposition themselves killed him for the same reason- reminiscent of the Soviet era). By any objective standing, the Russian government( and Putin himself, as befits a former KGB "spook") is not the most truthful entity around- remember the assertions that the murder of journalist Anna Politovskaya in 2006 was the work of "Western special services", the ludicrous stonewalling over the polonium induced death in London of FSB defector Aleksandr Litvinenko(one of his alleged murderers was given a seat in the Duma- the Russian Federation Parliament- making him de facto immune from extradition) and more recently the denials that the "rebels" in the Ukraine ( known as "little green men" in NATO parlance) are NOT official Russian Federation military personnel???

So let's play "Devil's Advocate" for the sake of argument and let us assume that the Russian government(and Putin personally) had NOTHING to do with Nemtsov's murder- at the very least we can agree that there are serious credibility issues on the part of the Kremlin.

Anybody think as I do?

Terry