{"postID":135659391,"cachedAt":715123881.89612496,"updatedAt":715123881.89612305,"content":{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Roughly a week ago we here at "},{"type":"text","text":"Racket ","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"type":"text","text":"got bad news from our partners at the Substack site “"},{"type":"text","text":"Russian Dissent","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"class":null,"href":"https:\/\/russiandissent.substack.com\/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"text","text":".” Boris Kagarlitsky, a soft-spoken academic and writer I met in the nineties who is a primary contributor to the “Dissent” site, has been arrested by the FSB. I made calls to Russia today and an initial "},{"type":"text","text":"report","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"target":"_blank","href":"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2023\/07\/26\/russian-anti-war-sociologist-charged-with-justifying-terrorism-a81969","class":null}}]},{"type":"text","text":" in the "},{"type":"text","text":"Moscow Times ","marks":[{"type":"em"}]},{"type":"text","text":"is true: Boris has been removed to a facility in Syktyvkar, in the republic of Komi, 1300 kilometers from his home in Moscow. The offense is supposedly “justifying terrorism,” based on a short, unremarkable article he "},{"type":"text","text":"wrote on Telegram","marks":[{"type":"link","attrs":{"target":"_blank","href":"https:\/\/t.me\/kagarlitsky\/1010","class":null}}]},{"type":"text","text":" last October."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Boris has supporters in Moscow and a lawyer. We’re trying to arrange additional aid, and will have more information soon. Our world grows more ridiculous by the hour. "}]}]}}