Maria Pevchikh, Putin’s Grand Inquisitor

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/maria-pevchikh-alexey-navalny-vladimir-putin

Navalny recovered and assembled his small and loyal inner circle, including Maria Pevchikh. A thirty-five-year-old graduate of Moscow State University and the London School of Economics, Pevchikh now leads a close, devoted team that has carried out remarkably detailed investigations of the gaudy corruption of Putin and his supporters. Pevchikh also participated in a probe of Navalny’s near-death experience. Using phone records, open-access sources, and other means, the group identified the agents who had trailed Navalny to Siberia in order to kill him. Navalny himself called several of them on the telephone. In “Navalny,” a nominee for Best Documentary Feature Film at this month’s Academy Awards, you see him pretend to be a high-ranking official in Moscow demanding a briefing. One agent, an expert on chemical weapons named Konstantin Kudryavtsev, proceeds to tell Navalny the details of the plot. The camera captures Navalny and Pevchikh exchanging high fives and delirious smiles as the operative spills the details. It is the greatest prank phone call in the history of cinema. When the call is over, Navalny and Pevchikh agree that, once the F.S.B., Russia’s intelligence service, looks into the matter, Kudryavtsev will probably end up dead.

London…

Why all these UK connections in stuffs Russia?