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A Wilderness of Mirrors: Litvinenko, Putin, and the West

The death of exiled former FSB (the domestic-security successor to the KGB) officer Aleksandr Litvinenko in London last November momentarily relegated Britney and K-Fed, Oprah, and Madonna to the second pages of Western tabloids.  It also sparked a frenzy of speculation about who stands behind the apparent murder—or “murders,” since talk of political assassination was...