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Jonathan O’Brien

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Documentary On One: Bombs, Balls And Beyoncé RTE Radio 1

Shakhing all over

When they came for Alik the Greek on a humid Sunday in Donetsk in October 1995, he couldn’t say he hadn’t had plenty of fair warning.

The colourful businessman had already survived several assassination attempts earlier that year, and the supposed ring of steel surrounding him was distinctly pregnable. Heedlessness, sadly, got the better of the 42-year-old ...