Edward Lucas: License to kill

By Edward Lucas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin cairs the meeting of the Presidential Council for Countering Corruption at the Kremlin in Moscow on Jan. 26.
Photo by AFP

The Kremlin has never been afraid to assassinate its political opponents. In 1940, a Soviet agent murdered Leon Trotsky with an ice pick in Mexico City. In the 1950s, KGB agents poisoned the Ukrainian nationalist leaders Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet in Munich.

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