Silenced Kremlin critics

Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny is just one of many Kremlin critics to have fallen foul of President Vladimir Putin’s rule

FEB 16
2024
Alexei Navalny, 47: Dies Feb 16, 2024. Previously survived poisoning with Novichok nerve agent on flight from Siberia in 2020
     
MAR 2013
Boris Berezovsky, 67: Oligarch and former Putin ally found hanged in UK. “Godfather of the Kremlin” fled to London in 2000

AUG 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62: Wagner mercenary chief dies in plane crash after criticising army
for failing to accomplish its military goals in Ukraine

NOV 2009 Sergei Magnitsky, 37: Lawyer who exposed massive tax fraud scheme dies in custody following severe beating
 
APR 2023
Vladimir Kara-Murza, 42: Opposition politician jailed for 25 years for comments critical of war in Ukraine
 
JAN 2009 Stanislav Markelov, 34 and Anastasia Baburova, 25: Lawyer and journalist, opposed to war in Chechnya, shot dead in Moscow

NOV 2015
Mikhail Lesin, 57: Media executive and former Putin adviser turned critic found dead in U.S. hotel
        
FEB 2015
Boris Nemtsov, 55: Former deputy prime minister under President
Boris Yeltsin is shot dead on Moscow bridge near Kremlin. Had opposed annexation of Crimea in 2014

NOV 2006
Alexander Litvinenko, 43: Former Russian FSB spy and Putin critic killed in London after drinking tea poisoned with radioactive polonium-210

OCT 2006 Anna Politkovskaya, 48: Journalist who campaigned fearlessly against Chechnya war, shot dead in Moscow

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