Alexander Bastrykin, head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, who took a Novaya Gazeta journalist into the woods and threatened to kill him there, finally responded to the entire country after a full day of deathly silence, as everyone waited impatiently for a comment.
He said he had taken no one into the woods: According to Bastrykin, he has not been in the woods for many years. Ingenious. Allow me to suggest an even stronger move to A.I. Bastrykin: he could simply say it wasn’t me, it was a man with a wooden leg.
