Is the Alexei Navalny fiasco harming Vladimir Putin?
By DW
03 January 2021 |
4:29 pm
Russian intelligence services have made the headlines recently: The FSB embarrassed itself in the Navalny poisoning case and the SVR is suspected to be behind cyberattacks in the US. Will heads roll now?
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