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American writer and historian Amy Knight (PhD) is an internationally recognized expert of 20th century Russian history and politics and the author of several books and studies. She earned a PhD degree in Russian politics at the\u00a0London School of Economics and Political Science<\/a>\u00a0(LSE) and worked at the U.S.\u00a0Library of Congress<\/a>\u00a0as a specialist in Russian and Soviet home and foreign affairs. She was a professor at the John Hopkins University in Washington and later at the Carlton University in Ottawa.Her book Spies Without Cloaks. The KGB\u2019s Successors<\/em>, published in 1996, sheds light on the transition, survival, and afterlife of KGB in the historical and political circumstances following the disintegration of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n

\u201cKalugin, for instance, openly admitted having assisted in organizing the murder of Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident back in 1978 (using a poisoned umbrella pin). Markov, married and father to young children, had not committed any crime besides escaping to Britain and openly criticizing the Bulgarian regime. (\u2026)\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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