so the london bridge stabbing attack and the recommendation by the news that people carry umbrellas to thwart such attacks made me remember the guy who was poisoned by a ricin pellet from an umbrella gun and i wondered if the recent incident was being used to point to the earlier one.
what i found was interesting. the guy who was poisoned was named markov, georgi markov. i idly wondered if he had had any connection to ukraine but didn't find any in a cursory search. but what i did find was two other men named markov, both ukrainian.
the first is ihor markov (https://ccis.ucsd.edu/people/vs-vgs/Markov.html) who seems to specialize in immigration, and guess who one of his funders is? none other than soros.
"Ihor received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in history from the National Ivan Franko University (Ukraine) and PhD in ethnology from the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is a founder of the Department of the Social Antropology at the National Academy of Sciences - the first schorlary unit in Ukraine, officially representing this field of study. His research has been funded by RENOVABIS, Soros Foundation, the European Union 7-th Framework Programme (Horizon 2020) and other sources."
the other markov is also named ihor but is an economist and banker. he is a former government member, and police discovered proof of election fraud in the district that he won back in 2012 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihor_Markov). i couldn't find a connection between him and soros, beyond the fact that elections don't seem to run their true course when either man is around.
i just found the coincidence of the two ihors curious...