Yashin told me about his wild sex with a provocateur a year and a half ago. And I don’t think the Nashi activists (pro-Kremlin youth movement), the FSB guys (Russian security service), or whoever made that video of him are going to leak it. Some scandal that would be for an unmarried 25-year-old man. They might as well go film compromising material in student dorms too. As my wife said: This will only make him more popular. Though after a pause she added: If a video like that of you shows up, I’ll kill you.
But jokes aside, I think Yashin, Fishman, Dobrokhotov, and everyone else involved really shouldn’t let this drop. They should launch a hard-hitting campaign against whoever commissioned this crap. It’s total lawlessness. Tomorrow they’ll be installing cameras in people’s apartments. I think a push for visa bans to Europe and the U.S. for Surkov and all his main cronies—Kostin and the like—plus the leading Nashi activists (pro-Kremlin youth movement) is entirely realistic. Sochi. Sukhumi. Skolkovo. There are plenty of nice places to vacation outside the EU. If they don’t slack off and abandon it halfway, the way our so-called human rights activists and liberal politicians usually do, it could actually work.