Nikolai Rusinov

"We moved on to yet another security organisation where my contact was former high-ranking KGB man Nikolai Rusinov. He ended up solving most of my security problems over the years. Rusinov patiently researched the Chechen gang and found that the main protagonist had a nephew or brother in prison in Siberia."

"We moved on to yet another security organisation where my contact was former high-ranking KGB man Nikolai Rusinov. He ended up solving most of my security problems over the years. Rusinov patiently researched the Chechen gang and found that the main protagonist had a nephew or brother in prison in Siberia. He found him and told him that he could basically choose whether to have an easy or a hard time in prison. All of a sudden the gang backed off, but I didn’t know why at the time. That was the last trouble of this kind that I had in Russia. Rusinov gave me advice on how to deal with threats, both real and implied. ‘What’s in here?’ people would ask. ‘Are you a tough guy or not?’ If you held your nerve and didn’t answer, they mostly just walked away. ‘There’s nothing here,’ they would say to each other, or: ‘We’ve got somebody here we can miss.’"