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by rosndo 1555 days ago
> There are lots of entities in Russia that aren't even related to the government that have the ability to reach out and roughly touch the maintainer. Any crime syndicate that was impacted by this is a potential threat to him now.

This is some weird fanfic. Russia is dangerous, but you have to do A LOT for those dangers to follow you outside of the country (much less to the US!)

It’s hard enough for Russians to get visas to travel to the west, and in the west you actually go to prison.

FWIW my wife fled Russia after her driver was shot and killed by the mob in an effort to get at her father.