Masha Gessen on the Russian opposition journalist Arkady Babchenko, who faked his own assassination as part of a sting operation in coöperation with Ukranian law enforcement.
Is Putin really a “pariah” and Russia “isolated from the international community”?
https://www.thenation.com/article/debasing-us-policy-discourse-about-russia/
https://www.gazeta.ru/business/2018/05/30/11776081.shtml?updated
https://ru.krymr.com/a/29258949.html
https://www.finanz.ru/novosti/aktsii/shveycariya-nachala-arest-aktivov-gazproma-1025819917
https://lenta.ru/brief/2018/05/30/zhivvv/