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From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.

This is the day.

Today.

Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has carried out a brazen campaign of state sponsored

assassinations.

The iconic Michael Schwartz tracked down one of the assassins behind that campaign.

It's Monday, April 8th.

So there's this small town in Western Ukraine called Irivna.

It's old and has a number of orthodox Christian cathedrals and a good theater.

And there's a man named Alex Maroidinov who moves into this small town.

He rents an apartment on the first floor of an old Soviet style building.

But he's not there because he wants to live in this apartment.

He's there because he wants to keep an eye on someone, a man who lives on the sixth floor

of the same building.

That man was on a list of six people that Alec had been given by two handlers who had

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