• The attempts to silence oppositon leader Alexei Navalny have failed.The Kremlin always portrayed him as a minor nuisance, a simple blogger. His poisoning revealed, however, exactly whom the Kremlin considered the main figure opposing Russian authoritarianism. Navalny will emerge from this dramatic incident an even stronger figure
    by Andrei Kolesnikov

  • The poisoning of Alexei Navalny on an internal flight in Russia poses additional problems to the West. German experts concluded that

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  • It seems medieval and extremely cruel to get rid of an adversary with poison. It has become almost a business card of the

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  • The nerve agent attack on British soil is a classical who-dunnit from a Cold War spy novel. More interesting than the murky details is the

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