Long list of ‘unfortunate coincidences’: these opponents of Putin also had to die

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The world’s most famous Kremlin critic is dead: Alexei Navalny (†47) suddenly collapsed after walking through the prison camp where he was supposed to serve his 19-year prison sentence. The Russian authorities have announced this. The exact circumstances of his death have not yet been clarified.

In 2020, President Vladimir Putin’s opponent (71) survived a poison attack. To this day, Russia denies involvement. The fact is: Navalny is not the first Kremlin critic to mysteriously lose his life.

Did Putin kill Yevgeny Prigozhin (†62)? That’s what the whole world wondered in August 2023, after the Wagner boss crashed a plane near Moscow. His presumed death came exactly two months to the day after his mutiny in Russia. Experts agree: Prigozhin’s machine did not just fall out of the sky.

Alexander Litvinenko was an agent of the Soviet Secret Service (KGB) – and an outspoken critic of Putin. He died in 2006 in a hotel in London. He drank green tea poisoned with polonium-210. This is a rare, highly radioactive isotope. British authorities believe the Kremlin poisoned Litvinenko – who in turn denies involvement. The poison attack took place six years to the day after Litvinenko fled to Britain.

He was a Russian double agent and passed information to British intelligence. He had to pay for this with his life. Sergei Skripal and his daughter lay unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in England in 2018. It was revealed in the hospital that they had been poisoned – with substances developed by the Soviet army in the 1970s and 1980s. Chance? One dares to doubt it. Both survived the attack. Russia denies involvement. It is said that Britain is engaged in anti-Russian hysteria.

Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya reported on human rights violations and criticized Putin. On his birthday, October 7, 2006, she was shot in her Moscow apartment. Politkovskaya is far from the only journalist who was murdered. Dozens of Russian journalists have been murdered since 2000, according to the Russian Committee to Protect Journalists.

Perepilischnuij helped Swiss authorities investigate a Russian money laundering scheme. He then eventually moved to Britain in 2009. He certainly wasn’t there. In 2012 he was found dead in his London apartment. Traces of a deadly poison from the Gelsemium plant were found in his stomach.

He was a Russian politician and millionaire. And: He was critical of the war in Ukraine and described rocket fire on Ukraine as “terrorism”. Pavel Antov had to die for this. He died in December 2022 after reportedly falling from his hotel room in India.

Yuri Shchekotschihin was a journalist in the Novaya Gazeta and a deputy to the State Duma. Before he died in 2003, he was considered an expert on corruption. Initially he was unwell for several days, then succumbed to poisoning. Russian authorities would not release his body for an autopsy. It was said he died of a severe allergic reaction. But relatives sent a skin sample to London. The diagnosis was: he had been poisoned with thallium, a highly toxic metal also used by the KGB.

One of Russia’s best-known opponents of the government was Boris Nemtsov. He described Russia as a mafia state led by Putin. In 2015 he was killed in an assassination attempt on the Great Moskva Bridge, in the immediate vicinity of the Kremlin. He was shot four times in the back. He died a day after announcing he would release new revelations about the conflict in Ukraine.

Source: Blick