Nov 022013
One of the jailed members of the Pussy Riot protest band has vanished from sight since she was moved to a new prison 10 days ago, reports from Russia say.
The husband of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova told a US news website he had not received any news about her and her current location was being kept secret.
She had been on hunger strike at a penal colony in Mordovia.
via BBC News – Pussy Riot: Tolokonnikova ‘out of sight’ since jail move.
Putin is reaching into the past. This is an old Soviet tactic. If you read any of the diaries of people caught up in the Russian Revolution, this is what happened: people disappeared without a trace.