I remember the time I contacted the Russian Consulate-General in San Francisco. It was the beginning of August 2001 and Dmitry Sklyarov had just been arrested a

I remember the time I contacted the Russian Consulate-General in San Francisco. It was the beginning of August 2001 and Dmitry Sklyarov had just been arrested after his presentation at DEF CON in Las Vegas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd. I was starting to organize efforts on Dmitry's behalf, including some protests calling on the government to drop charges against him. But initially, we didn't even know where Dmitry was being held or what had happened to him after his arrest. So, I called up the consulate and said that I heard that a Russian citizen had been arrested and would probably be brought into their consular jurisdiction and I was concerned about him and wondered if the consulate had received a report of this. The man on the other end said, in a super-thick Russian accent, "We do not have such information." And that was it.