Alan Judd

The assassination of Georgi Markov bore all the hallmarks of a Russian wet job

The Bulgarian dissident sailed too close to the wind with his revelations about Tudor Zhivkov in 1978, provoking the dictator to enlist Russian help in eliminating him

Georgi Markov – whose revelations about Bulgaria’s communist elite led to his assassination on Waterloo Bridge. [Getty Images]
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