St Petersburg Travel Notes, installment five: Russia's kontraktniki and Blood Money

As part of my recent stardom on the widely watched interview channel 'Judging Freedom' hosted by Andrew Napolitano, I am motivated to browse the Comments section below the videos and to consider the thinking of the several hundred who bother to make an entry out of the tens of thousands who watch the shows. A very large number of those writing in extend fulsome praise to interviewer and interviewee. A minority kicks the tires, so to speak, and opines that the interviewee would have nothing to say if his cable channel to Russian television were cut off, or that he is nothing more than an empty suit, if I may paraphrase one of the more disagreeable comments from Thursday's show.