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1margd
A late start, but seem to be no end of these.
I wonder how people like Paul Manafort would weigh risks from US justice v. possible vengeance from Putin's Russia?
(Assuming there's a there there, which seems less farfetched with every day...)
Russian Journalist Latynina Flees Russia After Attacks
Sep 10, 2017
Journalist Yulia Latynina has left Russia with her family after a series of attacks on her in recent months.
"I have left Russia in connection with threats to my life," Latynina said on Twitter, adding the hashtag "#Putin."...
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-journalist-latynina-flees-russia-aft...
I wonder how people like Paul Manafort would weigh risks from US justice v. possible vengeance from Putin's Russia?
(Assuming there's a there there, which seems less farfetched with every day...)
Russian Journalist Latynina Flees Russia After Attacks
Sep 10, 2017
Journalist Yulia Latynina has left Russia with her family after a series of attacks on her in recent months.
"I have left Russia in connection with threats to my life," Latynina said on Twitter, adding the hashtag "#Putin."...
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-journalist-latynina-flees-russia-aft...
2margd
ETA: also posted in Russian revenge thread...
Russia could easily take care of Mueller's witnesses, if anything to fear from them...
Russian Doping Whistleblower Says He Fears For His Life
Heard on All Things Considered (3:42) | December 27, 2017
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News about Grigory Rodchenkov, the whistleblower in the Russian doping scandal. Rodchenkov fled to the U.S. and says he now fears for his life.
...Grigory Rodchenkov (is) somewhere in the United States, but he's under the Federal Witness Protection Program. And in fact, because there are genuine concerns about threats to his life, his own lawyer has not even been able to communicate with him over the past week or so. That lawyer, Jim Walden, told me that he was recently informed by a U.S. government official that he should assume that there are Russian agents in the United States looking for Mr. Rodchenkov and that significant enhancements needed to be made in his security protections.
...a huge deal for Russia and for Vladimir Putin personally. The Sochi Olympics were a showcase for him. He took great pride in the fact that Russian athletes dominated those Olympics, winning more than 30 medals. And to have that prestige robbed from Russia, it was a huge embarrassment for Putin.
...(Russians)...have made clear that they view Rodchenkov as a criminal. They've filed criminal charges against him. They have demanded he be returned to Russia by the United States. And the former head of the Russian Olympic Committee has said that Rodchenkov should be executed the way Stalin would have done.
...(US) federal prosecutors are conducting investigations that could lead to criminal charges against Russian Olympic officials. These could be racketeering charges. And the idea would be that Americans who participated in the Olympics, the American Olympic Committee, American companies such as NBC, which broadcast the Olympics, would have been defrauded by this doping scheme.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/27/573870686/russian-doping-whistleblower-says-he-fe...
Russia could easily take care of Mueller's witnesses, if anything to fear from them...
Russian Doping Whistleblower Says He Fears For His Life
Heard on All Things Considered (3:42) | December 27, 2017
NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News about Grigory Rodchenkov, the whistleblower in the Russian doping scandal. Rodchenkov fled to the U.S. and says he now fears for his life.
...Grigory Rodchenkov (is) somewhere in the United States, but he's under the Federal Witness Protection Program. And in fact, because there are genuine concerns about threats to his life, his own lawyer has not even been able to communicate with him over the past week or so. That lawyer, Jim Walden, told me that he was recently informed by a U.S. government official that he should assume that there are Russian agents in the United States looking for Mr. Rodchenkov and that significant enhancements needed to be made in his security protections.
...a huge deal for Russia and for Vladimir Putin personally. The Sochi Olympics were a showcase for him. He took great pride in the fact that Russian athletes dominated those Olympics, winning more than 30 medals. And to have that prestige robbed from Russia, it was a huge embarrassment for Putin.
...(Russians)...have made clear that they view Rodchenkov as a criminal. They've filed criminal charges against him. They have demanded he be returned to Russia by the United States. And the former head of the Russian Olympic Committee has said that Rodchenkov should be executed the way Stalin would have done.
...(US) federal prosecutors are conducting investigations that could lead to criminal charges against Russian Olympic officials. These could be racketeering charges. And the idea would be that Americans who participated in the Olympics, the American Olympic Committee, American companies such as NBC, which broadcast the Olympics, would have been defrauded by this doping scheme.
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/27/573870686/russian-doping-whistleblower-says-he-fe...
