Our crackerjack FBI director is slated to go to Russia soon…a lush going to the home of great vodka…..sounds like a party. FBI Director Kash Patel is lining up a rare and politically fraught visit to Russia this fall, a US official and another person briefed on the plans tell Politico. The mid-October trip would take Patel to Moscow and St. Petersburg, likely at the invitation of Russia’s FSB security service, the successor to the KGB. His planned Russia visit comes as US-Russia relations remain strained over the war in Ukraine and election interference, and as lawmakers push for tougher sanctions. With US-Russia relations strained over Ukraine and new sanctions under discussion, Politico lays out why this trip is so sensitive—and why Congress is paying attention.