Or rather he was given to choose between acting as a pawn that way, and remain a free citizen in Russia, or be kicked out and either seek refuge in China or North Korea, or almost certainly be extradited by other counties to the USA where he would spend most of his life behind bars.
He will not be a free citizen of Russia. They will hold him hostage. If he is afraid of what the US can do, he should be more than concerned of what the Russia can do to him, given that his whole family is under their control.
I don’t envy his situation, but he has made his choice.
I use obsidian because apple notes lost all my notes amazingly when syncing between two computers and my phone- and my hope is that the markdown file method that obsidian uses in iCloud will be more resilient.
That said I'd rather have something that versions my notes files
I was going to guess without reading the article that it has to do with Drs etc arriving at work at 8am and mothers waiting until they arrive to have the baby extracted- seems about right
