What was Russia in 2016? It was when you sat in a courtroom waiting for the court to consider a motion to replace your suspended sentence with a real prison term. The reason: you spent your vacation in Karelia (though in reality, of course, it was because of your investigations).

And while you wait, you read an article in Novaya Gazeta about how the head of the state-owned company Rosneft bought himself a $150 million yacht and named it after his new wife.

What is one supposed to say in a case like this? “In this situation, as in a drop of water, the whole reality of what is happening is reflected?”

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