The killing of a distinguished Russian pro-war blogger on Sunday was probably the most important assaults on a Kremlin supporter since President Vladimir V. Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine greater than a yr in the past.
The author, identified to Russian tv viewers and lots of of hundreds of social-media followers as Vladlen Tatarsky, died in a bomb explosion in a St. Petersburg cafe. His demise got here at an unsettled time in Russia, with a rising variety of Ukrainian raids and drone…