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Oh of course, the title made me think he was already in some gulag somewhere though.
by Eddygandr 3y ago
Oh 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.
- quibono 3y agoI'm not sure we'll ever get any clear data on this but I don't think this is a very outlandish claim.
- jojobas 3y agoData from numerous defectors is clear enough, Russian secret services don't normally employ female officers for client-facing work.
- FreshStart 3y agoThe had a gay couple though to murder scripal. As if the sex or gender mattered regarding this topic. Cheap discussion subversion by tankies running out of arguments.
- jojobas 3y agoThat's a hoax, they were both identified as straight married men as far as we can tell. They also both fall into the "army officer recruited after few years of active duty" GRU pattern. They got a prostitute the night before their botched Salisbury trip, rather than shag each other. The whole gay bit came from their Russian TV ruse appearance.
- ck2 3y agoWhere's that huge list of Russians that have mysteriously fallen to their death? If I was Russian I'd never go above the 1st floor of any building, it would be ingrained in my culture. Sometimes I think authoritarianism in the US can get pretty bad but then I read what goes on over there and I realize it's not even close.
- iavael 3y agoIt’s much easier to just avoid anything even distantly related to politics. And that’s what actually ingrained in culture of most Russians.