As if falling ill on an overnight train ride to Munich wasn’t bad enough, the dissident Russian journalist received a scolding from a frustrated German detective.
The detective was a veteran of multiple similar investigations, including one that led to the conviction of an assassin imprisoned for"state-sponsored terrorism." The journalist, a young woman who had been warned previously that Russian President Vladimir Putin's associates intended to kill her, had suffered from a series of mysterious and miserable ailments for three months.She had brought her case to multiple perplexed doctors but had not called the police.
Her personal affliction is far from unique; indeed, she was reporting from Ukraine for the same newspaper that employed the late Anna Politkovskaya, the famed Russian journalist who was murdered in 2006 after years of covering war crimes and other human rights abuses perpetrated by the Russian military, and the Kadyrovites, during the Second Chechen War.
Those threats persist, even though Western allies have taken major steps to curtail Russian intelligence operations in Europe in recent years. Then-British Prime Minister Theresa May expelled 23 Russian officials after the poisoning of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in 2018.
Bulgaria, a NATO ally and an important supplier of ammunition and fuel for embattled Ukrainian forces last year, nonetheless remains “a fertile ground” for Russian intelligence operatives.
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