this guy see, they have the ethics committee chairman, his head? they photoshopped it on to a guy in sandals on a beach chair enjoying the miami sun. so the ethics committee guy in the russian parliament resigned over that scandal once all of his international real estate holdings were made public and he couldn t explain how he got the money to do that. other putin cronies and politicians also got embarrassed and were forced to resign by the same tactic, the same exposure of their corruption and the guy who ran that blog, who had these good instincts and performative the skills for how to make stories like this stick, he decided to do something very brave after exposing these russian politicianspoliticians. he decided he would not an anonymous source. he blogged under his own name. he stood by what he was doing. he became an activist. he became a really effective opposition figure in russian politics. those protests that so freaked out vladimir putin starting in