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PARIS (AP) Breaking the rules by taking a deep drag of his cigarette in a Paris airport washroom, the fugitive paratrooper rips his Russian passport in
Breaking the rules by taking a deep drag of his cigarette in a Paris airport washroom, the fugitive paratrooper rips his Russian passport in two and tosses it in the toilet, along with his military ID. It is Pavel Filatiev's last act of defiance before turning his back on his country forever.
Pavel Filatiev has been greeted as a hero by some in the West but is seen as a scourge in his native country for criticizing what he called Russia’s “terrible war.”
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