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Key bits of info here: > Glukhovsky was found guilty of posting text and video messages on his social media channels accusing Russian soldiers of committing cr
by Eddygandr 3y ago
Key bits of info here:
> Glukhovsky was found guilty of posting text and video messages on his social media channels accusing Russian soldiers of committing crimes in Ukraine. Prosecutors dismissed Glukhovsky's allegations as fake.
> Fortunately for Glukhovsky, he is not actually in Russia, and was sentenced in absentia. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Thankfully he isn't anywhere to be found, hopefully he made it to a safe country.
- riku_iki 3y agostill a big hit on someone's life with being forced to abandon own country and go through all asylum and adaptation process somewhere else..
- jacquesm 3y agoIt beats the alternatives by a considerable distance.
- Eddygandr 3y agoOh of course, the title made me think he was already in some gulag somewhere though.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoThe Russians are known to reach out, after dissidents living abroad, though.
- a_bonobo 3y agoSome recent examples are a daylight shooting of a former Chechen Rebel commander in Berlin [1], Shapoval's death by carbomb in Kiyv [2], and of course, Litvinenko's Polonium poisoning in London [3]. Glukhovsky is wise in not announcing where he is. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53091298 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53091298 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksym_Shapoval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksym_Shapoval [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
- resolutebat 3y agoAll true enough, but the Kremlin has bigger fish to fry than a <s>indie game dev</s> sci-fi author posting on Instagram.
- fl0ki 3y agoHe's an author, not a game dev. The game devs licensed his IP. All of this is explained in the article. You might also be surprised to learn that Andrei Tarkovsky, director of the film Stalker (1979), didn't personally learn C++ and program S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (2007). Neither did Arkady and Boris Strugatsky who wrote the novel Roadside Picnic (1971) that all of these works, including Metro, are inspired by.
- jojobas 3y agoThese are not very recent and quite a few of the attacks went wrong with surviving victims and caught perpetrators. The Russian omnipresent assassination machine is as much a myth as its invincible military. That said, the West keeps playing as if there's no hostile power trying to infiltrate everything it can, 30-50yo Russian males with unexplained biography gaps or no background checks at all still allowed to travel freely, establish businesses with sketchy financials and so on.
- sharikous 3y agoApart from the fact that Russia is not the only hostile power trying to infiltrate Western organizations, I find the premise incredibly sexist, as if men are presumably more likely to be foreign agents than women.
- nine_k 3y agoThat big hit happened at the end of February 2022, not now, especially for males in the age range fit for military service. For many, it happened in 2014 when the precursor of the current RU-UA war has started, with the (technically brilliant, admittedly) capture of Crimea, and the support of insurgency in western Ukraine. Being a vocal critic of the Russian regime is and has been unsafe in Russia, for many years, and for obvious reasons. Look at the guy named Girkin [1]: a hugely prominent Russian nationalist and imperialist, who has actually fought on the Russian side in the RU-UA conflict, and only demanded more of the war, is under arrest. He happened to criticize the ineptitude of the Russian military too loudly. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Girkin
- riku_iki 3y agoyes, and multiple opposition leaders been killed even before that, while west was paying hundreds billions to Putin for oil and gas.
- logdap 3y ago[dead]
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago> He happened to criticize the ineptitude of the Russian military too loudly. Girkin had criticized the military for over a year, and suffered no consequences. He is said to have protectors among the security services. His troubles started only this summer just after he demanded a new president for Russia, someone other than Putin – in Russia you can criticize the boyars, but you can’t ever call for the tsar’s removal.
- pydry 3y agoIt's not exactly safe in Ukraine either. American blogger Gonzalo Lira is under arrest for essentially an identical crime, dubbed "infoterrorism".
- riku_iki 3y ago> under arrest for essentially an identical crime or very far from that
- Guthur 3y ago[flagged]
- some_random 3y agoThere is no UA murder list.
- justsomehnguy 3y ago[citation needed]
- riku_iki 3y agocitation not usually needed for random fantasy in internet. Person who made allegation is supposed to bring proof.
- pydry 3y agoI think theyre referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets some of whom have been murdered shortly after appearing on the list.
- riku_iki 3y agothere are thousands people on that list, many are participating in questionable activities, of course some got murdered, but majority just arrested and put to trial.
- qwytw 3y agoIsn't Yulia Tymoshenko supposedly on that list? Yet not only she's still in parliament but she still running one of the opposition parties there.