As appears to be the case with Sergei Skripal in Britain on Sunday, Russian intelligence services like to use innovative but brutal weapons to assassinate defectors abroad.
They do so in order to send a message both to serving intelligence officers and to other defectors who have thus far eluded their grip — a message that Russia never forgives and never forgets those who betray it.
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