Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.

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    Because Russia will kidnap the doctors from western countries and claim they’re spies hoping for a trade off for some of their legitimately war lord and assassin prisoners held in the west

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      My first thought that they would be drafted and sent to the front lines as medics, but that would assuming too much planning and compassion of Russia.