Poison(s)

For 20 years, several poisoning cases have implicated Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin. Masters in the art of using poison, Russians have turned it into a strategic weapon. Behind each of these cases, at the cost of a few grams of poison, a tug of war between the West and Russia: struggle for influence, turf wars, financial and energy battles.

To trace this history, four cases are worth exploring:
2006 – Alexander Litvinenko
2015-2017 – Vladimir Kara-Murza
2018 – Sergei Skripal
2020 – Alexei Navalny

Each poisoning story reveals a chess game, in line with the Cold War, and sheds light on what has been played out since the outbreak of the conflict with Ukraine.