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"Kirill Krechetov[...]asks that his real name not be used out of concern for his safety." 'He was initially contacted several weeks before the summons letter l
by elipsey 4y ago
"Kirill Krechetov[...]asks that his real name not be used out of concern for his safety."
'He was initially contacted several weeks before the summons letter landed in his mailbox – in the form of a message sent via the messaging service Viber: Kirill Ivanovich, we are waiting for you, Krasnodarski Krai, 10th Brigade of the GRU Special Forces."'
Uh, did they just expose his real name?
- rintakumpu 4y agoI’d guess not. Ivanovich is the patronym of the pseudonym, the full pseudonym thus being Kirill Ivanovich Krechetov. Unless you meant Krasnodarski Krai which refers to a place, not a person.
- finfinfin 4y agoIvanovich is his (fake) patronymic, not last name.
- filoleg 4y agoIvanovich is a common middle name. And in russian language, when you want to refer to someone in a formal way, you use "Firstname Middlename" (unlike "Mr Lastname" in english). That's how you would refer to your school teacher, to your boss, to an acquaintance/someone you dont know closely, how a bank teller would talk to you, etc. So, no, I doubt they doxxed him.
- vba616 4y ago"Aragorn, son of Arathorn"
- filoleg 4y agoYou joke, but that's pretty much how it is in Russian lol. Unlike in English-centered naming conventions (and probably others, but I am not knowledgeable enough to comment on that), in Russian you dont really choose a child's middle name. It is always just father's name with slight suffix changes based on whether the person is a male (resulting in a -vich ending) or female (-vna ending). For example, if your first name is Alexey, and you have a son and a daughter, their middle names will be Alexeyevich and Alexeyevna respectively.