I don’t know about you guys, but I have been friended by seven Russian LJ accounts in the last week or so, none of which appear to have any mutual friends or interests in common with me.

I cannot escape the suspicion that this is related to my recent professional interest in Moldova, where in four weeks’ time elections will take place, in whose outcome various Russian forces have a keen interest.

I shall not be posting anything remotely sensitive about my work with Moldova here, even in locked entries, but will be interested to know if anyone else has been experiencing anything similar.

(Also noteworthy that I had a spate of friend requests on Facebook from people with Slavic or Turkish names, none of whom had mutual friends with me, over the last couple of weeks.)