It has turn out to be commonplace to understand Vladimir Putin as reverting to Soviet methods. So it appeared pure, shortly after the Wall Avenue Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia, that once I bumped into a lady I’d recognized in Moscow again within the Soviet days, I lamented that issues had been increasingly more as they’d been in these dangerous outdated days.
“No,” she stated, “they’re worse.”
She had been a insurgent and had left Moscow as quickly as she was in a position to, so I used to be struck by her response. However…
