masha has written so brilliantly about it this week that a couple hundred thousand people, some of the best and the brightest, have fled moscow to new lives because of their fear of being arrested and their ordinary lives being eradicated or their being thrown in prison. computer programmers, journalists, authors, college professors, all kinds of people. now, this tends to be -- tends to be urban middle class people, st. peter's burring, moscow and other cities in an enormous country, but to see that kind of flood indicates some level, at least you get some indication of the fear and the sense that this is not an episode but rather a really transformative event obviously for the worse. >> masha, i was just reading earlier today your piece "the scattering." in it you talk about people going on to their websites and deleting their websites, hiding youtube videos, even hiding something that they might have