Explain that one time I go back home. The elevator isn’t working. And when it was it was going wherever it wants, I press the 5th floor and I takes me to the 7th floor. One time I didn’t press anything and it took me to the top floor where it looked like prison. It had those metal bars everywhere; the floor was inaccessible. The elevator acting strange was one of the first things.
At work, this guy comes in with a sweatshirt and the sweatshirt has the Russian colors. The same day I go back home, the elevator is not working but I see a new calendar placed next to one of the doors. The calendar said “We’re a team.” And I was like hell no. 
So, I go to work cautious and start to around look, for details or clues. Who are those people right? Why did unusual things started to happen since I started working there? I notice this ASO PIRELLI sticker on one of the Windows. A security company. And the same night, I saw an ASO PIRELLI car in front of my flat entrance. 
This next weekend I had an argument with my ex. Then on Monday this guy Marin, who was my manager asked me with a smirk “Hris, how was your weekend.” I was sure he knew something. But I still didn’t know enough. At this point I suspecting that some Russian spies are probably onto me through that company. Russian flags, saying Harasho and smiling. At some point I received an invitation to prepare ads for a Webinar in Russia. I asked the girl who sent me an email “Are you with Russia?” And she rushed off her chair angrily as If I had figured out something that I should not have. 
This made me convinced that those were some Russian spies. Now the question was. What do they want from me? 
Shortly after I was listening to some loud music on my headphones at work. And this IT guy a few rows ahead of me shouted “can you stop, I can hear everything”. I was wearing headphones. So that made it obvious that they are on to my communication. 
This same guy a few days later shouted again “log into your Facebook account”. Now the first thing I did was to put a two-factor authenticator on the account. But I also noticed something else. When my girlfriend was calling the whole office was going silent. Like dead silent. I was like they could be listening to that too. One day we obviously had this phone call about vaccines. And a girl from that same company gives me a project related to some COVID testing labs. I was dead on sure that they knew that Yana knew something about COVID and they wanted to get to that. 
See what really confirmed my suspicion that they are spying on me and that they are Russian was the Christmas party. 
At some point they started playing League of Legends soundtrack and I loved those I played them a lot at home. And a few grownups over 40 like it was obvious that they had gotten to my playlist. Afterwards they introduced me to this guy called OLEG. He confirmed that he is “from Russia”. Then that guy Plamen asked me to play pool. During our game he said I need to tell you something. At that same moment a man intervened and told him “No”. 
When the game ended a few guys walked in sat next to me and said “Well we’re waiting”. I was like what are those people waiting for? Do they want me to give them something? Nevertheless, I didn’t say anything I wanted to see what they are waiting for. They did not say anything either. Just left. Apparently discouraged by my silence.
Then I walked to the balcony, there was a guy with long hair I tried my best to look approachable. He said to one of the colleagues about me “I think this is the start of a great friendship.” Obviously, I thought they had something in mind.
Then this guy Plamen, the guy wearing the Russia colors sweatshirt comes to me and gives me a black Christmas tree. And says “There’s a message inside.” I went to the bathroom, there was nothing inside. I guess the message was something along black Christmas given what happened afterwards.
Then on my way back to my home town on Christmas I found a shared ride on Facebook. While calling a taxi my call was stopped and a short unusual number called me and literally ordered me to get down. The taxi then drove me to a VAN instead of the shared ride car. I pretended not to see the van and I wen’t back a few meters back to the black Honda. That same VAN was driving next to the black Honda the whole way back to my home town. The guys in the car started telling me a story about about how Kennedy died. Then I immediately thought of that black Christmas tree. Those Russian guys are trying to get to something I thought and they had the means to do it. 
Other unusual things were happening at that time too. My cat disappearing, cars were following me and actively trying to hit me. They had a way of knowing not only what I talk about but my location it seemed. 
At some point this guy with the Russian colored sweatshirt requested us to meet in private. During the work meeting he slipped “Hris, the phone.” He didn’t say more. So I asked him straight. “Is it possible that someone is spying on me through that phone?” His answer was. “Everything is possible.” I took that as a confession. A few minutes later we switch table. And seeing him reluctant to talk I typed on his computer “What is going on, I need to know more. He went silent and looked shocked”. He ignored it and acted like he didn’t see anything.
At this point my deductions were that the people from Advent Group are Russians and that they are after some COVID information that my then girlfriend has. 
I started swearing at home alone, shouting one of the guy’s name Marin. Like literally talking to myself. Then when I went to work this man’s whole expression and attitude towards me was different. As if he could hear the things I was shouting. He didn’t say anything but I was sure that if he could hear the swearing the very least his attitude would change. 
What I’m trying to say is that I didn’t change the phone because it was any kind of special or because I thought it was special. 
I did so because it looked like some Russian spies were actively gathering information via it.
 A phone leaves a unique footprint every time it connects to the internet. An IMEI number.
I wasn’t sure whether it was the IMEI on the phone, my phone number or the telecom. I changed my phone, the telecom company and my number. I wanted to protect the integrity and safety of me, my girlfriend and even my other employers. I locked my Facebook account. I deleted the data on the phone because it looked like someone was trying to get to it. In my opinion there was nothing important there. But who am I to know what is important. 
I also left the apartment. I had to give the cat to Yana. I was sure that I wasn’t going to have a sedentary lifestyle by the looks of it. She agreed to look after it. A man was with her waiting for me outside the entrance of the apartment complex. White hair, over 55. I asked him what are you doing with her? He said “You better not ask any questions.” 
See I wasn’t ending a process. I was trying to stop it from happening. 
To me it looked like they could somehow get information about me. They put me on that COVID testing project to give me a hint that. They knew about that phone call with Yana. It looked like they would probably like to learn more about it and knew that Yana knew something. 
The first thing I did was tell her quote “There are some people listening that we cannot control, you need to mind your words.” 
And me being uncertain of their allegiance only made it even more important to take action quickly and to cut their access to me and more importantly Ariana. As someone who’s been in business the only information that seemed of value to me was that information that carried financial weight. I thought. They want to get more out of her. Not going to let that happen. 
Someone made it obvious that I am being listened to I wanted it to stop. I did all I could in my power. What was I supposed to do. Keep a phone and number so that they could continue? 
And I’m not saying they made me sell the phone but it sure doesn’t look like they wanted it to stay with me either.