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The tactics Russian intelligence uses to harass foreign diplomats
- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoFrom the article: >Tipping off television crews to meetings between a diplomat and an activist, allowing the crews to burst in on the “secret” meeting and grill the parties on tape. How is this happening if the meeting is taking place at an embassy? The premises of embassies are inviolable under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. So it's a failure on the part of the embassy security for reporters to burst in, but it's also a violation of a very basic diplomatic norm on the part of the Russians to let this sort of thing go unpunished.
- LanceH 9y agoPresumably it's not at an embassy as the activists are trying to keep a lower profile than someone who walks in the front door.
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- nathancahill 9y agoThe PDF report this links to is more insightful than this blogspam. The "harassment" bullet points are pulled from p24-25.
- rfreytag 9y agoI saw that too. Comment on that PDF here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14982419 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14982419
- mdekkers 9y agoFTA: Entangling a target in accusations of theft. One way is using the “drop” ruse, where an agent walking ahead of a target drops a wallet or bag, and when the target returns it, he is accused of stealing from it This is a well-known general tourist scam in Moscow