Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

Right at a table in a capital café in broad daylight, Valeria Fyodorovna Kudimova dies. The investigation quickly reveals that just before her death, in the same café, she met with two young women – American Laura Cortina, established as... a CIA operative, and Russian Vika Spesivtseva, who only worked for herself. Which of these two brought about her demise? Or perhaps there was a third party involved? Or, possibly, the reason and mystery of Kudimova's death lies in the past? In those fabulously distant times when blue trolleybuses and Volgas with a 'deer' drove through the streets, poetic readings gathered stadiums, the most revered profession was cosmonaut, and the two superpowers, the USA and the USSR, were locked in a deadly struggle threatening the extinction of all humanity…