Comment Don't be fooled, the release of one journalist does not mean Putin is softening
FROM the moment he was arrested everything smelled wrong. An investigative journalist whose nose for corruption took him close to senior Moscow city officials is “discovered” with drugs in his rucksack, the publication of pictures of a drug lab in his apartment, which turns out not to be his apartment at all, the assignment of a senior Moscow police officer to oversee an allegedly routine drugs case, and the referral to a Kremlin-favoured doctor to check on his health.
