Underpants, beards, and consonants

The investigative website Bellingcat tracked down the mobile phone numbers of eight members of the FSB team that poisoned Alexei Navalny (Russian secret police apparently can’t even afford burner phones), and gave two of them to the dissident leader, who is convalescing in Germany.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, pictured after being splashed with zelyonka in Moscow in 2017, a brilliant green antiseptic dye, commonly used to attack activists in Russia.
LONDON, U.K.—Surely you don’t want to read about the new, faster-spreading variant of the coronavirus today, or the fourth Israeli election in two years, and I certainly don’t want to write about them. So here are a few matters of lesser import, culled from yesterday’s media. First, we have...

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