Why an Official's Flight to the West Should Worry the Kremlin - The Moscow Times

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The reported flight from Russia to the U.S. of Denis Butsayev, the recently dismissed deputy minister for natural resources and ecology, fits a pattern that has emerged since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.It also echoes earlier moments in Soviet history, when defections tended to cluste