In Washington, the long arm of authoritarian power reached once more across borders — and was turned back. The FBI announced this week that it had dismantled a Russian intelligence plot to assassinate a political dissident living in the American capital, adding another chapter to a troubling pattern of Moscow pursuing its critics into exile. No harm came to the targeted individual, but the episode reminds us that the freedom sought by those who flee repression is never fully guaranteed by geography alone.
FBI Thwarts Russian Plot to Assassinate Dissident in Washington
A dissident faced imminent threat of assassination, though the plot was intercepted before harm occurred.