Oh, never mind!

The slinky Ms Chapman faces a bleak future. Probably at the instigation of the White House, ever anxious to press the Reset Button, there seems to be a big rush to get those Russian "illegals" out of the country. According to the New York Times this morning, this would allow "the government to avoid a series of protracted trials." Yeah, right. Protracted trials are what the U.S. justice system does best!

As far as we know, the Gulag is a thing of the past. But I for one would not like to be on an Aeroflot plane to Moscow, working up an explanation of why I had spent hundreds of thousands of rubles over many years, with only a series of Facebook photos to show for it. I'd much rather have a protracted trial--the more protracted, the better. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford