Delving into the Bond villain-esque life of Russia’s narcissist-in-chief, this documentary about the mid-air poisoning of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is perfect for our post-truth world
It is easy to mock the Kremlin’s assassins. But until you have been one of Vladimir Putin’s henchmen, tasked with terminating your boss’s troublesome political rival by any means necessary (even comic ones), do you really know that you, too, wouldn’t have liberally rubbed a pair of underpants with novichok? Exactly. You don’t.
None of this should be taken as implying that Alexei Navalny was poisoned by Putin’s henchmen doing just that. After all, as Putin told reporters, if the FSB security agency had wanted to kill Navalny, they wouldn’t have bungled it.
