Oh. I’ve hit the double jackpot. I had just gotten out of the punishment cell (SHIZO, a disciplinary isolation cell), and they sent me right back in for another 15 days. On top of that, they immediately labeled me a “persistent offender.” Which means that inside this maximum-security penal colony, I’ll now be placed under STRICT detention conditions. I wonder if it’ll be more like Dr. Lecter in *The Silence of the Lambs* or Magneto in *X-Men*?\n\nSo yes, the Kremlin’s reaction to the fact that I still “haven’t calmed down,” and keep calling for sanctions against Putin’s elite (the “list of 6,000”), and have once again announced the “Smart Voting” campaign they hate so much, was entirely predictable.\n\nI hope our little tsar was shouting, “Rot him away, rot him away!” — and throwing things at his courtiers.\n\nAnd by the way, just appreciate the pettiness of these crooks. My wife and parents had been waiting four months for a visit with me, and just when the time finally came, they transferred me to strict conditions, where visits are allowed only once every six months. So I’m out of luck.\n\nOh well, I’ll consider it this way: my starship has been attacked by disgusting monsters. It was damaged, and in order to survive I’ve had to move into a tiny surviving compartment, where life will be a little hungrier and colder, but also filled with a lot more time for reflection. Maybe I’ll come up with something interesting 😉\n\nBy the way, here’s something I was thinking about. It seems that in Putin’s Russia, only two political prisoners have so far been officially designated “persistent offenders.” I’m the second. The first was my brother Oleg. What a family.