In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival's board with mercury

Got to wonder about headlines like this, seems the standard these days is get as close to a clickbait title as you can without crossing the line. The inclusion of "Russian" especially has weird implications, is this something that is actually very common in other nationalities which Russia had stood strong against up until now? I find the headline far more interesting than the article which really does not add much in the way of information or clear up all the ambiguities implied by the headline.