comment: >
  
  Literally from the above article:
  
  The man’s identity is revealed by gulagu.net as Andrei Medvedev. He left the combat group of Wagner after his 4-months contract, signed in late July, came to an end
context: When your border service is there more to block you from leaving your country than controling what is coming in, it shows a problem. Like, the Berlin wall. How fun it's the same country who did that...
  Just saying.
  NB : I am surprised I am the first to make that comment. >
  
  FSB isn't border service, it's the successor to the KGB. >
  
  FSB are responsible for the Border Control in Russia. >
  
  Not to discredit your comment, but to make fun of my ethnocentrism as an American. 
  "Yeah sure buddy I'll go learn the Norway-en language and then I'll get a good grasp on what this article says" >
  
  Still the møøse for me. Old fashioned copy-paste to Google Translate did the trick, though. Tldr: some guy crossed, says he used to be with Wagner. >
  
  A møøse bit my sister >
  
  FSB cannot catch møøse and squirrel? >
  
  We kinda just assumed the shots were fired by Russian agents .. because they missed. >
  
  Federalnaja Sluzjba Bezopasnosti >
  
  These border guards have to realize that they are no longer border guards which would be deployed to defend the border from outside aggression. These guys are now prison guards. 
  At what point do they ask themselves "are we the baddies...?" >
  
  
  These guys are now prison guards.
  
  So...just like the decades and decades of the former USSR.  This is the Russia I grew up with. >
  
  What an achievement on Putin’s part: he had freedom in his hands, but his imagination was so limited he could only recreate the gulag state. What a poisonous little turd. >
  
  Sorry, but what is FSB? >
  
  It's the new & improved KGB.
  Hard to imagine how bad it's got to be to defect and go states-evidence against Wagner, Putin's favorite mercenary group. >
  
  Thanks, I had no idea there was a "new" KGB. How fun for everyone, I'm sure. Ugh. >
  
  They have been around since the fall in 91. >
  
  KGB, GRU, SVR, FSB, once a chekist, always a chekist. >
  
  NKVD don’t want to be left out! >
  
  The defector is described as a "new recruit' - which may have been a prisoner who was released by Putin and his war on Ukraine.     
  So much for prison recruitment...or lack of vetting. >
  
  In another post, The Defector was described as the head of the Wagner group.