Photo: 4 October 2009

Vigilantes Red-jacketed activists of the pro-Kremlin youth group Nashi check Alexander Podrabinek's mail box in the aparment building where the journalist lives in Moscow, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. Russian journalist Alexander Podrabinek, a former Soviet dissident and political prisoner, says he has been threatened with physical violence and forced into hiding after posting a Web article critical of defenders of Soviet history. Podrabinek, 56, accuses the Russian government of being behind what he calls a campaign of harassment, a charge the government denies. About 20 activists with the Nashi youth group, which has close ties to top Russian officials, picketed outside Podrabinek's apartment building Thursday. Associated Press / Daylife