A samizdat reader watched Viktor Zolotov’s video message to Alexei Navalny, where the commander-in-chief of the National Guard troops explains corruption and promises to beat the opposition politician, and she understood everything, except why everyone called it a duel. In search of the right word, Maria Abrosimova went to study the sources and discovered threat as an independent genre in traditional poetry, hip-hop, in New Zealand and schoolyards.