Thread by @bellingcat

In the mostly isolated village of Loyga, Mishkin's old neighbors tell @tvrain that Mishkin was involved in the Crimean annexation somehow (they're unclear as to the how) and that they know this from his relatives 🤔

@tvrain And here is the Loyga school. @tvrain's correspondent reports that school children appear to have been warned to avoid speaking to the press. Hm. We wonder why.

@tvrain There are some new signs on the door of the local kindergarten. One reads: "Photos and video recording prohibited." We're guessing this one is *not* directed at proud parents coming to record fun kindergarten events.

@tvrain In which @tvrain's correspondent is eloquently flipped off by someone inside the Loyga school. Stay salty!

@tvrain Friends of the family are convinced that Mishkin is a "good guy" who couldn't have been involved in what happened in Salisbury. Assume it's a provocation of some kind. This gentleman's wife threatened to call the police on the press. Yikes.

@tvrain This same gentleman, in passing, also admits to have knowledge that Mishkin is a Hero of Russia. He's a local artist. We hope his wife forgave him for talking to the press.

@tvrain "I'm 100% certain that this is Sasha [a Russian diminutive for Alexander]. I remember him from school," says an old classmate, meanwhile.

@tvrain "There were, of course, rumors that [Mishkin] was FSB or in one of those [other security service] structures," Mishkin's old classmate says.

@tvrain The house of Mishkin's parents in the village of Lomovatka, as pointed out to @tvrain by neighbors. The residents left "a couple of weeks ago," while "in a hurry." No one knows where they went, or why. Another mystery 🤔