Terror reigns in Russia: bloody attacks have accompanied Putin’s regime since its beginnings. The autocrat always used them unscrupulously for his interests.
If it hadn’t been such a strange time, Alexei Kartofelnikov, a bus driver from Ryazan, might not have noticed two men and a woman messing around with a white Lada in front of his house. They lifted three bags from the trunk and carried them to the basement of the high-rise building where Kartofelnikov lived. He looked at the license plate: it was taped over. It was ten o’clock in the evening. He called the police.