Rory Cormac

Maxim Kuzminov’s death is a message to would-be Russian defectors

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Rory Cormac

Rory Cormac is a professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of How To Stage A Coup And Ten Other Lessons From The World Of Secret Statecraft, recently released in paperback.

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