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The first rule of Russia is, don’t go to Russia, if you come from a country that they can get useful prisoners in exchange for swapping you for after they snatch you.
Carrying cannabis gummies there honestly shouldn’t even need its own special rule. There are multiple overlapping rules that should rule that right out before we even start talking about it.
Might wanna double-check whose word are you taking that he was carrying weed of any kind.
That’s very true. I read this part carelessly:
The man claimed that the sweets were prescribed by a doctor in the US and that he needed them for traveling, according to the TASS news agency.
I think you are right. Also, see rule 1. It really doesn’t matter.
Rule 1, about this being an English-language community?
I’m guessing you meant about arguing in good faith, maybe. I am, though. Personally, if Russian media or the Kremlin make a statement, I assume it is a lie. This is a good assumption to make, not because they always lie, but because they’ve given me every reason to distrust them. I’m basically reminding everyone that state and it’s official media are the child that cried wolf.
If that guy gets on American or European media and states he had weed gummies because he made a bad decision it forgot he had them or whatever, then I will believe it. Until then, I know Russia has/can/will simply abduct foreign nationals in order to attempt to strongarm the governments of those detained, and that is my default belief in each case until proven otherwise.
No, I mean rule 1 about not going to Russia, if your country of origin is in the snatching-citizens-of category (back from my comment). You were clearly speaking in good faith, I was saying you were completely right.
The true lesson is to never travel to Russia when their stock of political prisoners held on drug charges is depleted. They just traded one for the CEO of BTCe exchange and had to restock.
Their jails can hold quite a bit more than one person.
Of course, at least as far as the US is concerned, they’re not going to need to even release anybody pretty soon. They can just call up Trump and say “hey send us that war criminal you’re holding on to” and he’ll say “okey dokey.”
