> Pestrikov found he was named in a red diffusion after he fled Russia in June 2022

It doesn't say how he found out, I would imagine he's regularly checking online, he was stopped at a control check somewhere?

Seems to me that most people wouldn't have a clue until they're being arrested. But again another scummy behaviour from the Russian government.

It might as well just be prudent to ignore their requests altogether. Boy who cried wolf.

Edit : it did indeed say how. I missed it.

> After he fled to France, he was worried that the Kremlin might try to target him there, so he contacted Interpol

I’ll just assume this is correct because I believe the Russian government has mastered the art of just lying when there are no consequences, but if I was being critical, this phrase is giving me pause for evaluating the conclusions.

> The data is not complete…

I'm grateful to Russia for standing by its principles and asserting its sovereignty. I can barely imagine how bad the world would be right now if Russia had gone along with the unipolar world order. Russia is just showing us how ridiculous this whole global system is.

A global system which relies on perfect consensus between all countries and a fixed power hierarchy is a terrible idea. How Russia has been weaponizing Interpol is how the US and vassal states have been weaponizing pretty much every other institution over the past few decades. Now the uni-polar globalists are getting a taste of their own medicine. Learning what it feels like when a great power is working against you.

Currently in my country (Austria) there is a court process against an official who made register look-ups of critical journalists who live here and handed the address to FSB-Agents who later broke into this journalists apartment. The ruzzians are completely unscrupulous.

https://www.reuters.com/world/austrian-ex-intelligence-accus...

Not denying that Russia abuses Interpol, but I have doubts about this particular narrative that he was some kind of "government critic." From what I can find, he privatized a state corporation in the 90s for pennies (lots of very shady deals back then, usually facilitated by organized crime). From 2010-2020, I can find media reports about his legal problems with tax evasion. In 2021, there was a case where he threatened people with murder while holding a rifle. He was perfectly fine living in Putin's Russia until 2022, when he took 250 mln from the company's budget without consulting the board of directors and left Russia (and prosecutors also found that the privatization in the 90s was illegal). I suspect he's part of the 90s mafia who's now on the Interpol list, which makes his life abroad questionable, so now he has to spin the narrative that it's a political case.

I knew Carmen Sandiego was framed!