From: Michael Schwirtz, "Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking," The New York Times (March 31, 2019)
“With the intelligence services, the less you know, the better you sleep.”
--Vladimir Dobrovolsky, the nephew of accused killer Oleg Smorodinov, who said he knew about his uncle’s trips to Ukraine to “surveil people.”
Image from article, with caption: The headstone of Ivan Mamchur, a Ukrainian electrician who worked at the Rivne jail and a military veteran [who fought on the Georgian side during the 2008 five-day Georgia-Russia war] and was murdered in Rivne [JB - see], a city in western Ukraine [the accused hitman is Oleg Smorodinov, linked to Russian intelligence]
Image from article, with caption: Oleg Smorodinov in a defendant’s cage in a courtroom in Rivne. Credit: Joseph Sywenkyj for The New York Times
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