Commentating on the pardon and release of Nadia Savchenko The Saker makes an original point: it could very well turn out that Savchenko will become a headache for Kiev's political class.

Consider this, she has been sainted as Ukraine's national hero, a kind of modern day Joan of Arc. After her release from Russian jail she was flown back home in Poroshenko's own presidential jet and greeted by the president of Ukraine and her formal party boss Yulia Tymoshenko.

Savchenko is already a member of parliament having been elected to Ukraine's rada while locked up in a Russian prison in October 2014.

In other words she has both the prestige and the moral capital, and the platform needed to be an influential figure in post-Maidan Ukraine at least in the short and the medium term.

This would all be well and good, but as Saker notes the past and the demeanor of this veteran of the ultranationalist Aidar militia do not point to her being much of a team player. Perhaps she will be content to serve as a prop to the top leadership – or perhaps she will come to rail against its corruption and lack of dedication to the war in East Ukraine.

Indeed, having barely touched ground in Kiev she has already declared herself willing to run for president of Ukraine, speculated that Crimea can perhaps be regained if WWIII breaks out and attacked those who "sat on the couch while we fought".

Conceivably she could indeed come to represent a major thorn in the side of Kiev's elites and truly serve as "Putin's poisoned gift" to Kiev as Saker speculates.

In fact The Saker is not the only person to entertain this thought. Some Russian analysts have predicted the same and Ivan Katchanovski, the Ukrainian-Canadian academic who has been a constant commentator on Maidan Ukraine, now fears a political crisis:

Savchenko is classical case of irrational exuberance and a political bubble in the current Ukrainian politics. This irrational exuberance and her political bubble are inflated by the government, the media, and her own ego, similarly to previous cases of Tatiana Chornovol, Dmytro Bulatov, and Oleh Liashko. Like irrational exuberance and bubbles in finance, they can result in political instability and crisis in Ukraine.

However, if that were to happen why wouldn't Kiev elites simply assassinate her?

There literally is no downside for a hit on Savchenko it she turns into a "poisoned gift" to Kiev's elites.

Consider this. Not only would assassinating her remove a problem for them – if Savchenko becomes one – but it would also result in a massive outpouring of sympathy for them, because the west would of course pin the responsibility on Putin.

Think Litvinenko, Nemtsov, Politkovskaya and others. Whenever a person connected to Russia is murdered – there is no need for an investigation. The western media simply instantly proclaims Putin responsible.

In Savchenko's case the story would be that Putin had to release her in order to secure the counter release of his GRU agents by Ukraine, but that he never ceased resenting her for this public humiliation and eventually evened the score by murdering her.

In this way Kiev bosses would score an MH17-sized propaganda victory against Putin ("The Vile Russian Dictator Murders Ukrainian National Hero"), gain a dead martyr (both more useful and less troublesome than a live hero) and remove a challenge all in one stroke.

Now, of course, it may be that this is beyond even Ukraine's cowardly post-Maidan elites. Probably they would balk at murdering a hero of Ukraine, right? Perhaps they would.

On the other hand these are the people who are only in power because right-wing Maidanite snipers murdered several dozen of their fellow Maidan protesters in the black flag Kiev sniper massacre, which was falsely blamed on their enemy Yanukovich.

So perhaps people who have benefited from, and have helped cover up Maidan's massacre of the "heavenly hundreds" will draw a line at Nadia Savchenko?

Perhaps.

And if she becomes a big enough problem for them we will also find out.