Miriam Elder: Welcome to the Russian game
US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin before their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 14, 2016. Top US diplomat John Kerry flew into Russia Thursday to press President Vladimir Putin over Syria peace efforts and targeting jihadist groups, as leader Bashar al-Assad said he has never faced pressure from Moscow to go.
Back in 2010, a series of sex tapes started hitting the internet in Russia. Several members of Russia’s anti-Putin intelligentsia were caught in various states of undress with a woman named Katya, and sometimes with each other, and sometimes with cocaine, and sometimes without. The show was repeated again this spring, when a former prime minister who is now prominent figure in Russia’s embattled opposition was caught in bed with another activist, the whole thing leaked for the world to see.
