[squarefoot]

Or rather he was given to choose between acting as a pawn that way, and remain a free citizen in Russia, or be kicked out and either seek refuge in China or North Korea, or almost certainly be extradited by other counties to the USA where he would spend most of his life behind bars.

[signatoremo]

He will not be a free citizen of Russia. They will hold him hostage. If he is afraid of what the US can do, he should be more than concerned of what the Russia can do to him, given that his whole family is under their control.

I don’t envy his situation, but he has made his choice.

[dsabanin]

There are no free citizens in russia.