Anne Applebaum

Many times.

It's funny. I haven't seen it in a while, but I imagine the technology now will seem incredibly primitive.

It's funny. I haven't seen it in a while, but I imagine the technology now will seem incredibly primitive.

It's funny. I haven't seen it in a while, but I imagine the technology now will seem incredibly primitive.

That's right. There were tags in his shoes or something or his coat, maybe. That's right. Yeah.

That's right. There were tags in his shoes or something or his coat, maybe. That's right. Yeah.

That's right. There were tags in his shoes or something or his coat, maybe. That's right. Yeah.

These are political murders and they want everyone to know they're political murders. They don't, for reasons of delicacy, they don't want to shoot them in the face, but they want other people to be afraid. So, you know, actually for a long time in Putin's Russia, there weren't a lot of political murders. There wasn't that much political violence. Instead, there was kind of targeted violence.

These are political murders and they want everyone to know they're political murders. They don't, for reasons of delicacy, they don't want to shoot them in the face, but they want other people to be afraid. So, you know, actually for a long time in Putin's Russia, there weren't a lot of political murders. There wasn't that much political violence. Instead, there was kind of targeted violence.

These are political murders and they want everyone to know they're political murders. They don't, for reasons of delicacy, they don't want to shoot them in the face, but they want other people to be afraid. So, you know, actually for a long time in Putin's Russia, there weren't a lot of political murders. There wasn't that much political violence. Instead, there was kind of targeted violence.

So they would pick on one journalist, you know, or one activist. And that person would be bumped off. The idea was that if you kill one person, if you kill Anna Politkovskaya, she was a famous journalist, then you scare everybody else. So other journalists become afraid to do the kinds of things that she was doing.

So they would pick on one journalist, you know, or one activist. And that person would be bumped off. The idea was that if you kill one person, if you kill Anna Politkovskaya, she was a famous journalist, then you scare everybody else. So other journalists become afraid to do the kinds of things that she was doing.

So they would pick on one journalist, you know, or one activist. And that person would be bumped off. The idea was that if you kill one person, if you kill Anna Politkovskaya, she was a famous journalist, then you scare everybody else. So other journalists become afraid to do the kinds of things that she was doing.

With the war in Ukraine, there is more opposition and more unrest, and especially in the Russian elite. This is mostly not happened to people in the provinces. And so there's a greater need to tighten up on internal dissent. And so it's been happening to bankers, business people, high-ranking bureaucrats, people who are inside the system will suddenly fall out a window.

With the war in Ukraine, there is more opposition and more unrest, and especially in the Russian elite. This is mostly not happened to people in the provinces. And so there's a greater need to tighten up on internal dissent. And so it's been happening to bankers, business people, high-ranking bureaucrats, people who are inside the system will suddenly fall out a window.

With the war in Ukraine, there is more opposition and more unrest, and especially in the Russian elite. This is mostly not happened to people in the provinces. And so there's a greater need to tighten up on internal dissent. And so it's been happening to bankers, business people, high-ranking bureaucrats, people who are inside the system will suddenly fall out a window.

There have been some falling down stairs as well, even weirder ones, and a bunch of poisonings. And those are not just to get rid of the person. It's also to scare the other people because they are afraid of internal dissent and people being anti-war. That makes sense.

There have been some falling down stairs as well, even weirder ones, and a bunch of poisonings. And those are not just to get rid of the person. It's also to scare the other people because they are afraid of internal dissent and people being anti-war. That makes sense.

There have been some falling down stairs as well, even weirder ones, and a bunch of poisonings. And those are not just to get rid of the person. It's also to scare the other people because they are afraid of internal dissent and people being anti-war. That makes sense.

That particular murder might have been an accident. I mean, it seems that the people who had the poison and were carrying it around London and leaving traces in hotel rooms and so on, they may not have known what it was. I mean, so that might have been stupidity. But you are right that very often they do things in a way that are designed to be followed.