Politico: The conversations — which took place between the summers of 2023 and 2025 — reveal a “good cop, bad cop” routine to pressure Ivan to infiltrate the online communication of an opposition group and report on their activities in Europe from Moscow.
The men were hungry for seemingly trivial details, and their interest wasn’t limited to Russian citizens. They also wanted specifics about those — Russian or otherwise — helping emigrés in Europe, whether they be language teachers or foreign ministry officials in the countries where the dissidents had found new homes…