How six Bulgarians did Russia's dirty work from the UK
A spy cell tracked the Kremlin's enemies across Europe, plotting honeytraps, kidnap and murder.
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The Russian journalist's investigations into Vladimir Putin's regime - one of which unmasked the agents responsible for the 2018 Salisbury poisonings - have made him a target of the Kremlin.
But as the Insider editor waited on the tarmac to board a commercial flight from Budapest to Berlin in 2021, where he was to give evidence in a murder trial, he didn't notice the brunette woman stood behind him.
He thought nothing of it when she took a seat close to his. Nor did he see the camera strapped to her shoulder, quietly recording.
That morning, the woman had flown from Luton to Budapest to locate the mark. Dobrokhotov's flight information had been obtained in advance.
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