Bear Watch: Dead Woman Will Not Be Jailed
Thanks to Johnson’s Russia List, we confirm once again that the wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine. RIA Novosti tells us that “Russian prosecutors drop charges against businesswoman who died in custody.”
Vera Trifonova died in April 2010. What makes her case noteworthy is not that charges were dropped once she was dead, but that “new charges were brought against Trifonova in October, five months after her death.”
Writes Prof. David Stone over at The Russian Front.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.