History
Rodion Steshenko was a former Red Room operative imprisoned in solitary confinement at The Tomb for eleven years. While following the trail of a mysterious assassin murdering using the MO of the late Black Widow, Clint Barton decided to pay Steshenko a visit.
Clint got Rodion to talk, pretending to have informed the Russian government that Steshenko had already cooperated and offering him protection in exchange. Steshenko eventually talked when Clint made him notice through a window that his partner, the Winter Soldier, was outside building, which panicked Rodion since he didn't know Barnes was no longer a Red Room assassin due to having been in jail for over a decade. Steshenko gave Clint the name of an American Red Room handler, Alexander Cady.[1]