A court in Russia’s second city St. Petersburg has placed a military cadet in pretrial detention after he allegedly murdered a hearing-impaired woman whose hearing aid he mistook for espionage equipment, local news outlet 78.Ru reported on Tuesday.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

reminds me of this funny story of when the soviets made asses of the us govt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)