anonymous bullard puts it pretty well:
Only a decade or so ago it was the Soviet regime that was imprisoning their own scientists, sometimes because of “non-socialist” behaviour, perhaps simply for approving of “western” commercial/capitalistic principles. The FBI would play cat and mouse against their “evil” (probably back then they indeed were more sinister) KGB counterparts.
Now we have a scientist from democratic Russia, working for a company with ex-KGB affiliations, jailed by FBI, the guardians of ultra-capitalistic USA. And FBI is now the the state organ protecting state-approved monopoly on information claimed by US-based Adobe Corporation. National Profit comes before Scientific (or personal) Freedom.
O Tempora O Mores.
that last bit is cicero. here are a whole buncha his latin epigrams.