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Mercenary boss Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was declared dead in a plane crash. Prigozhin’s death adds to the ill-fated list of ‘enemies’ of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Deutsche Welle (DW), whether Prigozhin was indeed killed when his plane crashed in the Tver region of Russia is still unclear. But the Russian government said DNA tests confirmed Prigozhin was among the 10 passengers who died.
Two months before his death, Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin Chef” for his close ties to the Russian president, led a “strike” of Wagner’s troops into Moscow. Putin accused him of being a traitor, without naming him directly.
Prigozhin finally stopped the action and fled to Belarus. At that time, many observers already said that Prigozhin’s life was only a matter of days. He is the latest victim in a long list of critics of Putin who have been killed or are in prison.
The following is a list of Putin’s ‘enemies’ that ended in disaster.
September 2022 – Ravil Maganov
Ravil Maganov, director of Russian oil giant Lukoil. Lukoil was the first major Russian company to call for an end to the war in Ukraine.
He fell from a window on the sixth floor of a hospital in Moscow. The police suspect he committed suicide. Police said Maganov was diagnosed with depression, as well as heart problems.
August 2020 -Alexei Navalny poisoned
One of Putin’s harshest critics, Alexei Navalny, collapsed on a domestic flight from Tomsk to Moscow and fell into a coma. After the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, Siberia, Navalny immediately received medical attention.
He was then flown to Berlin, Germany, and treated at Charite hospital. The hospital later confirmed that he was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent, Novichok, which was developed during the Soviet Union.
After recovering, Alexei Navalny released a recording of a telephone conversation, in which a suspected agent from Russia’s internal intelligence service, the FSB, confessed to the attack. In footage uploaded to YouTube, the man said poison had been rubbed into Navalny’s underwear. Russia considers the recorded conversations to be fake. Navalny decided to return to Russia and was immediately sentenced to prison.
August 2019 – Zelimkhan Khangoshvili
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, Georgian national and ethnic Chechen who fought against Russia in the Second Chechen War. He was shot dead in broad daylight by three bullets to the head and back in the Tiergarten park in Berlin.
The killer was Russian intelligence agent Vadim Krasikov, who was arrested at the scene. Two years later he was sentenced to life imprisonment in Berlin.
September 2018 – Pyotr Verzilov
Pussy Riot artist and activist Pyotr Verzilov has reported vision and speech problems after appearing in court in Moscow. He once ran onto a soccer field during the 2018 soccer World Cup final in Moscow to draw attention to police brutality.
Verzilov was also taken to the Charite hospital in Berlin for treatment. Doctors suspected he had been poisoned.
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2023-08-30 22:47:46
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