In Moscow, restaurateur Viktor Mishachev’s SUV was blown up in a “nineteen‐nineties” style hit, wounding him, his young son and a bystander. Hours later, police arrested his business partner and found a private arsenal of rifles, pistols, armour and bomb‐making materials. We unpack the blast, the rivalries that may have sparked it, and the hunt for accomplices in one of the city’s most brazen attempts on a businessman’s life.
In Moscow, restaurateur Viktor Mishachev’s SUV was blown up in a “nineteen‐nineties” style hit, wounding him, his young son and a bystander. Hours later, police arrested his business partner and found a private arsenal of rifles, pistols, armour and bomb‐making materials. We unpack the blast, the rivalries that may have sparked it, and the hunt for accomplices in one of the city’s most brazen attempts on a businessman’s life.