User blog comment:Alexguy96/Doesn't Dima Mayakovsky die when trying to stop the bomb in Paris?/@comment-88.104.119.227-20121019214029

The events throughout the game do not occur in chronological order. The mission 'Kaffarov' happens before 'Comrades' because Dima learns, at some point in this mission, that Solomon intends to detonate a nuke in Paris. Hence why Vladmir is alive in Kaffarov even though he dies in Comrades. Also, if you watch the cutscene at the end of the campaign, it is revealed that Dima has been diagnosed with radiation poisoning as a result of the attack in Paris so somehow he survived the immediate blast but his future is unclear although it looked like he was about to shoot himself until there was a knock on his door.