My father, Alexey Soldatov, is dying in prison. Terminally ill, he has been in jail since July 22.
-- a thread. 1/7 It’s been a horrible ordeal for a 72-year-old scientist and Russian Internet pioneer – in those two months he has changed three prisons, slept on a floor, and shared his cell with 40 inmates. 2/7

.@washingtonpost story by @CatherineBelton and @gregpmiller about the FSB in Ukraine is a good read, and it's based on the sources in Ukraine and D.C. But it also makes a point of attacking our reporting, undermining our credibility, and to that I have to respond. 1/7 The article says, “Early reports that Beseda, responsible for the FSB’s Ukraine directorate, had been demoted or even imprisoned are viewed skeptically by U.S. and other intelligence officials.” 2/7