Vladimir Putin he came to power in the year 2000. Since then, those people who have dared to oppose his government have been singled out, some of them dying in strange circumstances.
Alexander Litvinenkoa former KGB agent, denounced corruption in the Kremlin and went into exile in London, where he was assassinated with polonium in 2006. European justice concluded that his death was probably ordered by Putin.
Litvinenko himself had accused Putin of ordering the assassination of Anna Politokvskaya, the journalist most critical of the Russian president, who was shot in the head. Five people were convicted of the crime, but it remains undisclosed who commissioned it.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia… until he challenged Putin. After denouncing corruption in the Kremlin, he was sentenced to nine years in prison. Worse luck ran the also multimillionaire Boris Berezovsky, who became, exiled in London, the fiercest opponent of Putin. He survived several attacks and was hanged in 2013.
Riddled with bullets next to the Kremlin died in 2015 Boris Nemtsov, Putin’s great rival whose death has never been clarified. Since then, he has become a symbol of Russia rebelling against tyranny. He is also a dissident Nikolai Glushkov He mysteriously died in 2018.
More recent have been the attempts to poison opponents Vladimir Kara-Murza and Alexei Navalniwho, from prison, continues to call his compatriots to rebellion.
Source: Lasexta
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