Wow, it turns out that today’s interrogation of my wife Yulia was only the beginning. Russia’s Investigative Committee, through its “directorate for the investigation of especially important cases involving crimes against state authority,” has apparently set something grand in motion.
Some kind of full-blown super-operation to eradicate crime. Summoned for questioning tomorrow are:
Anya Biryukova — head of ACF’s sociological service
Galya Koposova — an ACF staff member who works in the investigations department and coordinates several other projects.
Vladislav Naganov — he is now working on independent projects and helping us as a volunteer; he previously worked at ACF full-time.
Also—and this can only be explained as a strategy of refined cruelty—an Investigative Committee officer has summoned the mother of former ACF press secretary Anna Veduta for questioning. Veduta herself left to study at Columbia University, but this is their way of sending her a message: “we’ll find someone to go after.”
The website of Russia’s Investigative Committee reminds us what investigators for especially important cases are supposedly for:
Clearly, this is one serious gang: Biryukova, Koposova, Naganov, and Veduta’s mother. They’ve committed so many high-profile and especially grave crimes.
P.S. Probably worth adding the traditional: “you won’t intimidate us, and we will not stop our work.” In case anyone forgot.
P.P.S. You can donate money to ACF (as a sign of protest :)) here — https://donate.fbk.info/