Over at Bloomberg, the estimable Leonid Bershidsky, a former Russian newspaper editor, outlines one little-noted element in Monday's congressional hearings with FBI director James Comey in his pieced titled "Why the Comey Hearing Is Scary To A Russian." You definitely want to read it, but the short answer is that Comey told Congress he didn't know what Gazprom is.  Gazprom is a company so vast and so omnipresent in understanding Russian affairs that it's the equivalent of the FSB chief saying at a Russian hearing that he had never heard of ExxonMobil, Bershidsky notes. Now, it's possible that Comey meant he didn't know much about it in detail, or that the thought of discussing it with an ignorant Democrat boob, which is who his questioner was, gave him a headache just to think about, but it might just mean he doesn't really know. It calls to mind that understanding anything about Russia – particularly its history in the 1990s...(Read Full Post)