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Ostensibly, Roman's arrest is because he tweeted that (Dutch citizen)

@maxvanderwerff

works with the GRU. This is equivalent to the FBI busting down an American's door and arresting them for tweeting out that like Paul Joseph Watson or some other foreign nut works with the CIA.

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This morning the home of Bellingcat partner Roman @Dobrokhotov was raided by Russian police, along with the home of his parents. Roman heads @the_ins_ru, which has partnered with Bellingcat on numerous investigations over the years. wired.com/story/roman-do

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"But the FBI can't investigate someone for libel," you say. Or, "Why would the American government defend some random foreign blogger?" you also may ask. Great questions! The answer to all this is that Putin is doing a speedrun of early Brezhnev-era repressions.

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they can investigate someone for leaking the identity of an actual CIA agent, however

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Leyawiin (formerly of Siberia)

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And Van Der Werff helping him means that it's definitely a tool-assisted speedrun.

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