article_snippet: The killing comes at a time when the Kremlin is clearly nervous.
article_snippet: In undemocratic states, The killing is sometimes the spark that lights the fuse.
article_snippet: And yet Russia is in a poisonous state of division.
article_snippet: If the Kremlin did not know before, the Kremlin very likely knows by now who the killer was.
article_snippet: the Kremlin next decision will be how to use the information for the Kremlin own purposes.
article_snippet: Whether or not the actual perpetrators are caught and punished, all know who created the climate of hatred in which liberal politicians are likened to "jackals who hang around foreign embassies" and a "fifth column" of traitors.