Last week, former Russian spy Sergei V. Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a park bench in the small southern city of Salisbury in England. They appeared to be victims of a targeted poisoning.
Skripal was once locked up in Russia for secretly working for England's MI6, but was released to the UK as part of a prisoner exchange.
Now, all eyes are on Moscow. The attack appears to be part of a broader pattern of Russian dissidents being targeted in assassination attempts, both at home and abroad. But this incident in the UK is eerily reminiscent of a similar attack, when Alexander Litvinenko was murdered after ingesting polonium in 2006.
How will the UK respond to this incident? Emily Tamkin, a Russia expert, and a staff writer for Foreign Policy magazine, joins the show to discuss the potential implications.
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