To arrest a foreign journalist was unusual even in the Soviet period. What was much more common was to arrest political dissidents and people who disagreed with the Kremlin's line of thought on the pretext of being foreign espionage agents. Here we are now in 2023 there is no more Soviet Union. Putin has never accepted the fact that the whole USSR lost the Cold War and he continues to try to revise the outcome. And it is last unfortunate that what we find today in Putin's Russia is a rolling out of former KGB practices updated for the modern digital world.