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“I think Knight’s book does an exceptional job in tracking the history of, briefly, Tsarist Russia, then Soviet Russia, then the Putin regime, in carrying out assassinations of a very different set of targets—from journalists, to competing oligarchs, to leaders of insurgencies and political opponents. What the book does well is stay within the boundaries of what we know and not fall for the more sensationalistic accounts, which are quite prevalent when it comes to state-sponsored assassination, and in particular Russian-sponsored assassination.” Read more...
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