This Jamestown Foundation Seminar in Russia 2012:
Will be interesting to see how one learns of such seminars, if it is by invitation only or if it is open to the public. Reports earlier today stated that when he first went to Russia he stayed in Moscow. Family members there said they were concerned about his leanings toward extremism. Perhaps he didn't like the philosophy of what he was hearing re: the seminar or he heard what he considered hypocrisy
From what I can tell, this group (the JF) says they are on the side of human rights and those fighting against an oppressive regime. But they do not support the extremists or radicals. A fine line or tightrope to walk with easily influenced and displaced young men who may feel like outsiders.
When the mother first started ranting, I posted about how the family may have first been given asylum in the US. I suggested that she, not necessarily the father, may have had mixed feelings from the start or even an ulterior motive in coming here. Last night I hinted that our "boys" in Mclean, VA may have hitched their horse to the wrong wagon. Tonight, it seems that maybe the deal the family got when they first arrived here sounded sweeter than it turned out to be. Now it appears that, in their own way, each and every one of the T family has rebelled. The kids with drugs and domestic violence, the Dad just "giving up" and leaving and Mom turning her kids away from working for the US cause and back toward working for, who she believes, are "their own."
Remember, she said that the reason they had to come here in the first place was because her husband, AT, had done something in Russia. He, in his first interview, discussed how the family had to keep moving because (paraphrased) they were being hunted down. He initially came here with only DT. The mother, TT, Alina & Bella would follow within a year. Remember also that Dad arrived here in 2001. That could be very significant.
