Russian assassins do not generally fire six shots without hitting anything. Russia’s killing industry, at least, is world class. For this reason, Moscow police were inclined to see the amateurish March 18 attack on central bank chairman Sergei Dubinin’s apartment as a coincidence. High state officials have so far been immune from the murder wave sweeping finance and industry, and apparently feel confident about remaining so. The government apartment block which Dubinin recently moved to had no visible security, despite a recent near-fatal attack on a legislator who also lives there.
