I was emailed the other day by La Russophobe, whose disagreements with this blog are robust, asking to bring attention to the case of the Russian literature professor Boris Sokolov, who appears to have lost both his position at the university as well as his columnist arrangement with Gazeta for having written a column about Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili. Sokolov had also previously been criticized for questioning a 9/11 conspiracy film being heavily shown on Russian state television. Sokolov’s firing appears to me to be a frightening barometer of the current level of intolerance in Russia for outsider opinions on the Georgia situation.