DOJ charges Russian intel operatives with running 'global assassination network'

In the long and shadowed history of states silencing those who speak against them, the United States Justice Department has named five Russian intelligence operatives — including a former colonel and his son — as architects of a global network designed to hunt Kremlin critics across borders, reaching as far as Brooklyn and the Baltic states. The indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges that this network sought not only to kill but to recruit ordinary people into the machinery of political murder, offering modest sums for surveillance and tens of thousands for the act itself. That the alleged plot