Long before Russia's armed annexation of Crimea and its invasion of eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin played similar games when it engineered the secession of Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions and propped up the bandit territory of Transnistria in Moldova. And, given such blatant disregard for the international order, it is no surprise that Putin's agents have been implicated in the murder of at least one opponent on the streets of London.
在俄罗斯武装吞并克里米亚并入侵乌克兰东部之前，克里姆林宫早已开始了类似的游戏：煽动格鲁吉亚南奥塞梯和阿布哈兹地区分裂、支持摩尔多瓦德涅斯特河沿岸地区的动乱。考虑到如此公然无视国际秩序，毫不奇怪普京的特工卷入至少一起伦敦街头谋杀反对者的案件。