Talk of a writer with a lieutenant-colonel Grigory Pasko, journalist Если Вы хотите прочитать оригинал данной статьи на русском языке, нажмите сюда. In the writer Zakhar Prilepin’s essay “Поедем на авто, несогласный?” [“Shall we take a drive, dissident?”] (the book “Я пришел из России” [“I came from Russia”], Limbus Press, the year 2008) is described the dialogue of the author with an employee of the FSB (the feesbeshnik [FSB-nik—Trans.] speaks first):

“Look here, you’re a famous person – but you’re not afraid that they’ll use you?” “Who can use me, if I myself don’t want this? The CIA? The Pentagon? A masonic lodge?” “Well, something could be offered to you too…” “Nothing can be offered to me, I have everything. Things can only be taken away from me.” Further on, the author comes to the conclusion that he and his interlocutor are really not all that different. “The difference, really, is in one thing: if it will be necessary to ‘seat’ me [lock me up—Trans.] – he will ‘seat’ me. But I wouldn’t ‘seat’ him…”, – the author of the essay concludes his musings.