General Georgi Koskov

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James Bond character
General Georgi Koskov
Gender	Male
Role	Villain
Affiliation	Soviet Military/Brad Whitaker
Current status	Arrested
Portrayed by	Jeroen Krabbé

General Georgi Koskov is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Living Daylights. He was portrayed by Jeroen Krabbé.

Koskov is a corrupt Soviet general in business for himself, who carefully plays both sides of the Cold War. Initially, Koskov gives the impression of a somewhat anxious pawn in the battle between the Soviet Union and the West, when he is, in reality, a mastermind using all means to his own advantage. He dotes on his mistress, Kara Milovy, giving her all manner of expensive gifts, but when necessary will readily sign her death warrant.

Koskov fakes his own defection using Milovy as a sniper to make it look real. James Bond is assigned in aiding him across the border into Austria. Koskov is, however, working with Brad Whitaker in an illicit arms and drug deal. At a safe house in England, Koskov falsely and deliberately fingers KGB head General Pushkin as the mastermind of "Smert Shpionem" or "Death to Spies," a plot to kill off American and British spies, but Bond suspects the truth. Ultimately Koskov is captured by Pushkin, and it is implied that he is to be executed when Pushkin orders that he be put on the next plane to Moscow "in the diplomatic bag". Koskov is an example of a "realistic villian", and one of the few Bond villians not to have been killed on screen.

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Preceded by Max Zorin

Bond Villain (with Brad Whitaker) 1987

Succeeded by Franz Sanchez