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2 days ago · Even prior to the case of Alexei Navalny, the assassination of former Russian Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov—a vociferous critic of Putin—on 27 February 2015 had been a chilling precursor to the extent of the regime’s willingness to crack down on dissidents.
3 days ago · Umar Israilov was assassinated in Vienna on 13 January 2009. Israilov was a former Kadyrov bodyguard, who cooperated with The New York Times, extensively detailing abuses committed by Kadyrov and his associates.
4 days ago · The Kremlin denied involvement in the poisoning, but such protestations had become increasingly implausible, as the attack on Navalny represented only one in a long series of assassination attempts against Putin’s critics. Putin, for his part, refused to say Navalny’s name in public.
5 days ago · The assassination attempt on Fico is unprecedented for Slovakia but follows a series of high-profile incidents. In 2018, the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée sparked...
4 days ago · By 2012, the three most popular leaders of the opposition to Putin were Boris Nemtsov (killed in 2015), Alexei Navalny (who was poisoned, imprisoned and died four months ago under unexplained...
5 days ago · Russian activists also defended the change of the name of part of the street where the Russian Embassy in Lisbon is located, to “simultaneously honour Navalny and Boris Nemtsov”, the latter also an opposition figure who was shot dead on a bridge near the wall of the Kremlin in 2015.
3 days ago · Violence continues to haunt Eastern Europe. the attempted assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on May 15 inevitably conjures up the memory of the assassination of Archduke Franz...
