The Long, Dark History of Russia’s Murder, Inc.
Surveillance video footage showing the murder of a businessman in Moscow in 2013; Russian police identified Vadim Krasikov as the suspected attacker, seen escaping on a bicycle. Krasikov is now in prison as chief suspect in another assassination, in Berlin in August 2019, that German authorities say was commissioned either by Russia or Chechnya.
The last fortnight has seen new revelations in two separate cases of suspected Russian state murder. In one of these cases, the alleged hit squad was directly a unit of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service. In the other, German authorities recently concluded that there is “sufficient evidence” that the Russian state, or its federated southern republic Chechnya, is responsible for the execution-style killing of an ethnic Chechen asylum-seeker; as a result, two officers of the GRU have been expelled from the Russian embassy in Berlin.… Seguir leyendo »