In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury

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In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury
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Poisoning people, pushing people out of windows, and shooting people twice in the back of the head. The holy trinity of Russian assassinations.

You had the chance to legitimately used 'defenestration' and you didn't jump on it?!

No no, the point is to make someone jump on it. In this case, it was you!

I'm not taking the fall!

No no. You see. You didn't actually chose to jump on it, the other person made you. You have no say in the taking the fall.

Russian suicides you mean? Russian has never once in its history killed anyone, they died of their own accord.

They also started a misinformation campaign about a female boxer's gender.

This wasn't assassination though, the headline is just deceptive. It was just a lone psycho in Russia trying to kill another Russian. Not an international competition, like was implied in the headline. (Or at least that's the impression I got from the headline.