Anti-Putin Politician Facing Kremlin Raid Uses Drone to Fly Hard Drives Away (newsweek.com) 38 points by fludlight 6y ago ↗ HN
[–] deepsun 6y ago ↗ It's not the first their raid, so I believe they didn't store much data on the drives, only cloud. However, Russian police unlikely to ever return the seized stuff, so the drone just saves them money and burden of buying new hard drives. [–] zelon88 6y ago ↗ And highly symbolic. It was a very defiant gesture.
[–] TurkishPoptart 6y ago ↗ Bravo, Sergei Boiko! I hope people donate to your Yandex Kashelyok. [–] seniorivn 6y ago ↗ https://money.yandex.ru/to/4100110426155439
[–] throwaway66920 6y ago ↗ I’ve always assumed high level Russian elections are rigged. Is that true? Are low level elections more fair? [–] rwz 6y ago ↗ Hell no. It's even crazier and more blatantly unfair since there's less monitoring and less need to save face and maintain the illusion of fairness. [–] throwaway66920 6y ago ↗ But the article implies this guys movement to elect anti kremlin reps to lower positions is working?
[–] rwz 6y ago ↗ Hell no. It's even crazier and more blatantly unfair since there's less monitoring and less need to save face and maintain the illusion of fairness. [–] throwaway66920 6y ago ↗ But the article implies this guys movement to elect anti kremlin reps to lower positions is working?
[–] throwaway66920 6y ago ↗ But the article implies this guys movement to elect anti kremlin reps to lower positions is working?
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