RE: Backyard armor.com?
It does not matter what happened, suffice it to say he is gone. No sense in dragging it out again, and besides, unless you read cyrillic and thoroughly understand Russia and Russian, you will get nothing from the info available.
This is a different world here, and while he was far north of me, I also live in what was, and will be again, a part of Russia, so I understand it reasonably well.