Russian opposition leader Alex Navalny died in prison.
He was a critic of Putin and some time ago also an attempt was made to kill him by poisoning him. However, this is not the first time that a critic of the Russian President has died in such a suspicious manner.
Not long later the Wagner Chief was killed in a plane crash. During Putin’s 23-year rule, Kremlin critics have been killed in different ways.
Everyone from journalists to spies have been involved in this. Let’s take a look…
series of suspicious deaths
In Russia, such methods are used to kill Putin’s opponents so that no one can doubt even a suspicious death.
One such opponent of Putin, Alexander Litvinenko, was poisoned to death in London in 2006. Later, the British investigation also revealed that Russian agents had killed Litvinenko on Putin’s wish. Similarly, a former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal was also poisoned.
Similarly, two writers Dmitry Bykov and Pyotr Verzilov were also poisoned. Similarly, three anti-Kremlin Russian journalists were poisoned to death in other countries.
Even former Deputy PM was not spared
Similarly, in 2006, Anna Politkovskaya, who had written news related to human rights violations, was shot outside her home in Moscow. Similarly, a prominent opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was also gunned down in central Moscow.
This incident is of the year 2015. He had been Deputy Prime Minister during the tenure of President Boris Yeltsin. In 2013, Boris Berezovsky was found hanging in the bathroom of his home.
Boris was initially a Kremlin insider who later became a critic of Putin. Similarly, another Kremlin insider, Mikhail Lesin, was found dead in a hotel room in Washington DC in 2015. Lesin was once among the personalities who promoted Putin.
don’t like opposing voices
The most dangerous death was that of Kirill Stremosov, who was appointed deputy governor of Ukraine’s Kherasan province by Russia. According to the information, he died in a car accident. Stremosov was known for his outspoken statements and reactions on social media. In one such video, Stremosov had asked the Russian Defense Minister to shoot himself. It is believed that after this statement of Stremosov, the Russian government was trying to get rid of him. Vladimir Kara-Murza, another important opposition leader of the Russian government, also had attempts to kill him by poisoning in 2015 and 2017.