This story in Washington Post is mostly based on a really extraordinary correspondence that Alexandra Arkhipova has managed to enter into with "Anna Korobkova", a self-proclaimed serial snitch. НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛИ) НАПРАВЛЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ) ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА (НАИМЕНОВАНИЕ, ФАМИЛИЯ, ИМЯ, ОТЧЕСТВО (ПРИ НАЛИЧИИ), СОДЕРЖАЩАЯСЯ В РЕЕСТР ИНОСТРАННЫХ АГЕНТОВ) There's a bit of me there, too, with rather a comic sideline to the grim main plot. Overall the evidence points out that the repressive machine does not run on people's "signals", does not need them to operate and generally considers them rather a bother. On thу other hand, the evidence of this random and hectic activity is much used by the state media machine to implant distrust and social atomisation and, most of all, shed responsibility for state repressions by painting them as something that people wanted all along and somehow initiated. "As in Soviet times, some denunciations appear to mask a grudge or material motive. Prominent Russian political scientist Ekaterina Schulmann, who has more than a million YouTube followers and is now based in Berlin, was savagely denounced by neighbors in a report to the Moscow mayor after she left the country in April last year and was declared a “foreign agent.” They called Schulmann and her family longtime “subversive” elements, “acting in the interests of their Western handlers, whose goal is to split our society.” But the heart of the complaint was really a 15-year-old property dispute. “This is not a political denunciation, but an old economic conflict in which people are trying to seize the moment as they see it, so far without much success,” Schulmann said". “This is not a political denunciation, but an old economic conflict in which people are trying to seize the moment as they see it, so far without much success,” Schulmann said".