An ideological convert. It makes some logical sense given his past.

It'd be interesting to see a table of these, like this one and others such as [1]. But how many others went from US/West Europe --> Russia?

And will he change his name to protect himself? [2]

(And will he be sent directly to dine with Snowden for a bit of friendly ideological pressure? :-))

1. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/europe/wagner-norway-andrei-m...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Kravchenko_(defector)

Full interview at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34977126