This past week saw another Russian political travesty in the news: 62-year-old Robert Shonov, a Russian citizen who had worked for the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok and for a private contractor that provided services to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, convicted on charges of “confidential collaboration with a foreign state.”

And — rather oddly — there is the case of one Daniel Martindale — or someone who purports to be Daniel Martindale — an American who has allegedly been fighting with the Russian military in Ukraine for the past two years, and has just been “removed” from the battleground and brought to Moscow, where he claims he wishes to become a Russian citizen.

And each day it becomes more painfully clear that world opinion, and world condemnation, mean nothing to Vladimir Putin.

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As for the hostages remaining in Putin’s prisons, we continue to remember them and to fight for their return. They are:

David Barnes
Staff Sergeant Gordon Black
Marc Fogel
Robert Gilman
Stephen James Hubbard
Ksenia Karelina
Michael Travis Leake
Eugene Spector
Laurent Vinatier
Robert Romanov Woodland

And all of the others whose identities are not known to me. They are not merely prisoners; they are HOSTAGES, who must be brought home as quickly as possible.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
11/3/24