Matthews, 63, is something of a Putin expert, having authored two spy novels in which the former KGB operative plays a central, if semifictional, role. It also probably distracted and covered the footsteps of the guy who came up behind him.” As for rumors of Putin’s involvement, he says, “I don’t know if Putin would have said, ‘Whack this guy.’ But he may have, in a private meeting, said, ‘This guy is really a stone in my shoe,’ and waited to see who came up with a plan.” “If you watch the video, there’s a snowplow that comes at exactly the right time to block the cameras and shield traffic on the street. “Whatever it was, it was a pretty slick hit,” says Jason Matthews of the Nemtsov killing. And 7,000 miles away, in his oasis-like backyard in the desert of Southern California, surrounded by a softly trickling fountain and grapefruit and palm trees, sits a mild-mannered novelist with top-secret insight into all of it.
North Korea is firing missiles ISIS is digging in to Tikrit. The actual Putin, meanwhile, is nowhere to be seen, having gone missing for the past 10 days, following the murder of a popular dissident, Boris Nemtsov, on a bridge near the Kremlin.
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In Moscow, a Russian TV station has just aired a controversial documentary in which President Vladimir Putin declared he was prepared to use nuclear weapons over the crisis in Ukraine. and Iran are preparing to sit down for nuclear talks, the future of Middle East peace possibly in the balance. On a busy Monday morning in March, geopolitical intrigue is running high.
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