Leonid Bershidsky, Columnist

Why the Russian Suicide Game Went Global

Blaming “The Blue Whale” for teen depression and worse is a distraction from the much bigger problem.

April 25, 2017 at 3:10 PM UTC

Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”

Blaming "The Blue Whale".
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A teenage suicide game spreading from Russia raises the same urgent questions everywhere, including Brazil, where my Bloomberg View colleague Mac Margolis just spotted it: Who is responsible? How do we stop them?

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