Last Friday, Leonid Razvozzhaev, assistant to deputy Ilya Ponomarev, who had previously been put on the federal wanted list, was kidnapped near the building of the Office of the High Commissioner for UN Affairs in Kyiv. As it became known on Sunday, Leonid was transported to Moscow and arrested for a period of 2 months.
The public is outraged by the actions of the Russian special services...
What exactly outrages you? Why are you surprised? Maybe it's time to abandon naive intellectual reasoning and get closer to reality?
Leonid Razvozzhaev, like many other participants in the protest movement, is an enemy of the ruling elite. And if the regime does not disdain election fraud and inciting discord between the “God-bearing people and snickering Muscovites”, throws Gennady Gudkov out of the State Duma for far-fetched reasons and does not stand on ceremony with the prisoners of Bolotnaya, then why on earth do you suddenly expect from the regime what - something of nobility?
On the other hand, keep in mind that similar methods will most likely be used by the new Russian authorities after the collapse of the Putin regime.
How else do you propose to bring the friendly neighbors in the Ozero cooperative and the court oligarchs into the hands of justice?
Are you seriously planning to return them to Russia through legal means? Well, Kyrgyzstan has been trying unsuccessfully for several years now to get Belarus to extradite K. Bakiev...
For me, it’s better that some of the current powers that be return to their “so beloved” homeland in the strong arms of state security officers and with a bag on their heads, than to enjoy a luxurious life into old age in the “hated” West under the careful protection of the best in the world lawyers-hook-makers, generously paid, by the way, with people's money...
So, dear fellow citizens, do not be so categorical in your judgments.
War is war... And the methods used today by the regime against its people will be used no less effectively tomorrow against the representatives of the regime themselves.
And it is quite possible that in a year or two the Western media will make a fuss about the “provocative” and “illegal” actions of the Russian special services against some associates of the “national leader”...
Well, the associates themselves will fully enjoy all the delights of the Russian penitentiary system...