John navalle's life has been at risk for a very long tim, he has survived the poisoning attack with novicho. The purpose of this latest transfer is to limit access to his lawyers. It's just petty but awful vengefulness. But when we've spoken before, arkady, youv said that russia does not want alexinovanli to die for fear that he might become a martyr and strengthen our position. Has that calculus changed?
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