I HEREBY WITHDRAW PERMISSION FROM RUSSIA INSIDER TO REPRINT MY PIECES.

The gratuitous addition of a Nazi anti-semitic illustration to my piece was too much. After I posted this (and many other denials elsewhere) they changed the picture to an anodyne shot of a Pravda front page.

Too late.

I was a big supporter of (and contributor to) RI at its start but, over time, I lost my conviction. I stopped.

I got it wrong and trusted what I should not have trusted.

Well, as Aeschylus said: “Zeus, who guided mortals to be wise, has established his fixed law— wisdom comes through suffering.”

I can’t say I suffered all that much. But enough.

Goodbye, Charles Bausman and RI. I believed once, but no more.

Pity. There was a possibility once.