While President Vlad Putin tries to wrest control of the internet, young internet-savvy activists are showing up post-Soviet bureaucrats by providing flood relief in Krymsk, Russia.
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Posted by
Intomorrow on 07/30 at 10:54 PM
Visiting Russia presents a doubt:
not of visiting Russia—but of getting out of Russia in one piece.
Mexico, too.
The following is something to be concerned about, the radioactive poisoning of a dissident:
“British novelist and historian Rupert Allason said he would be most surprised if the FSB had tried to kill Mr Litvinenko because it would fly in the face of 65 years of Soviet or Russian practice, as “[n]either the FSB nor the KGB has ever killed a defector on foreign soil and their predecessors, even under Stalin, did so only once in the case of Walter Krivitsky in Washington in 1941.”
Notice: “[n]either the FSB nor the KGB has ever killed a defector on foreign soil and their predecessors, even under Stalin, did so only once in the case of Walter Krivitsky in Washington in 1941”
Only once? Well, then it was a definite precedence.
It only takes once. Litvinenko was only killed once.
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