" In fact, the aim is to blur what is true with what is not, to the point that the truth disappears altogether. By noisily asserting that something is false, you create a fake counter-reality. In time this constructed sovereign version of events becomes real- at least in the minds of those who are watching. "

― Luke Harding , A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's War with the West