Posted on 03/05/2015 4:03:25 AM PST by elhombrelibre
Enemies of Vladimir Putin have a way of winding up dead.
Whether they are poisoned, gunned down on the streets of Moscow or blown to bits in their homes, people who have crossed or merely criticized the Russian president have turned up dead around the world. Putin political adversary Boris Nemtsov, who was shot and killed near the Kremlin last week, is only the latest in a long line that includes hundreds of journalists, human rights activists and businessmen.
“I believe Vladimir Putin is a stone-cold killer,” said Bill Browder, author of “Red Notice, A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice.” “Anyone who gets in the way seems to be arrested, exiled or killed.”
Browder, a Russia-based investor in the 1990s, recounts in his book details of the consequences he and his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, suffered at the hands of the Putin regime. Magnitsky was murdered in prison in 2009, after being arrested for exposing a $230 million tax fraud scheme involving law enforcement and government officials.
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•Sergei Yushenkov was gunned down in front of his home in April 2003. Yushenkov was part of a commission that investigated claims the KGB orchestrated bombings to ignite support for Putin’s war against Chechnya. A second member of the commission was fatally poisoned, a third nearly lost his life after being severely beaten, and the attorney for the commission was imprisoned for espionage.
•Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov was shot to death in Moscow in July 2004, after he reportedly uncovered a money-laundering scheme that reached the highest levels of the Kremlin. Two suspects were charged, but later acquitted. He was one of more than 300 journalists in Russia who have disappeared or been murdered since 1993, according to a June 2009 report from the International Federation of Journalists.
•In June 2004, human rights advocate and professor Nikolai Girenko was assassinated in his home.
•Andrei Kozlov, a top official at Russia’s Central Bank who dedicated his career to eliminating money laundering, was killed in September 2006.
•Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote books and articles accusing Putin of human rights violations in Chechnya, was executed in an elevator in her Moscow apartment building on Oct. 7, 2006.
•Human rights attorney Stanislav Markelov was shot in the head in January 2009, as he left a press conference where he announced plans to sue the Russian government. Journalism student Anastasia Barburova was killed as she tried to intervene.
•Human rights journalist Natalia Estemirova, was killed in July 2009, after being kidnapped from her home in Chechnya.
Two well-known cases of the poisoning of Putin adversaries involved former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
Hmmmmm ..?? JUST LIKE THE 80 PEOPLE WHO DIED BECAUSE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CLINTONS.
You think Putin’s Russia is better than the US (less killed), about the same, or worse for killing political opponents?
Most spy thriller movies are less strange.
And apparently he did know that he was frequently followed by the FSB and spied on in all ways by them. I guess they took the night off and he didn’t have them available to witness the execution.
Quite frankly, I don’t think anything about Russia.
I don’t call him Adolf Putin for no reason.
I think it was a journalist that commented that the non reaction of the kremlin presidental guard to the shooting was the most telling. They never came out to investigate the shooting. In an area where even pointing a telephoto camera at the kremlin wall can get you questioned, there is no reaction to a shooting.
Yet you want to share your thoughts despite, as you admit, not thinking. Do you do that on a lot of subjects?
Well .. why should I waste my time “thinking” about Russia .. when you are obviously the one and only truest and best thinker about Russia ..??????>
Good point. And yet again you’ll still make comments without thinking. It must be a something noticed at your work place, if you work.
Well .. I’m busy .. so you’ll have to amuse yourself .. which I’m sure you are very good at.
You’re too busy to think but not too busy to make meaningless comments.
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