Count Alexander Karlov, an aristocrat who fled revolutionary Russia with his father, is being pursued by a particularly malignant Cheka agent, Viktor Polyak, of Russia's new Bolshevik regime.
Nothing better illustrates the enduring lawlessness and impunity here in eastern DR Congo than the case of Ntabo Ntaberi Cheka, a militia leader wanted for allegedly organising mass rapes, who is openly campaigning for election as a local MP.