While Russia under the iron grip of Putin did manage to silence Alexander Litvinenko soon (poisoned with radionu- clide polonium-210 whilst in exile in the United Kingdom), it didn’t stop the trail of mysteri- ous deaths of Putin’s critics.
Captain Maksim Kuzminov, 28, was found riddled with bullets in an underground car park in Villajoyosa near Alicante on February 13 after deserting Russia last year
It doesn t take a keen Kremlin watcher to see Alexei Navalny s death in Russia as the latest in a systemic string of attempts to eradicate opponents of Putin over the years.
Captain Maksim Kuzminov, 28, was found riddled with bullets in an underground car park earlier this month following what is feared to have been a Kremlin-orchestrated hit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s foes and critics have often met with violent deaths at the very peak of their conflicts with the Kremlin leader during his nearly quarter-century in power