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A Russian artist in Warsaw: what a shooting on a Polish street tells us about exile and exposure
A Russian artist critical of the Kremlin was shot and gravely wounded outside his home in Warsaw. Polish PM Donald Tusk has called it ‘political murder.’ The case exposes the fault lines running through Poland’s role as a refuge — and a target.

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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Zelimkhan_Khangoshvili
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_Skripal
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_espionage_in_Europe
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