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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in jail on Feb. 16 follows a long list of murders and suspicious deaths of opponents of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Since he came to power in 1999, more than 20 Putin critics have been killed or died mysteriously. Another long litany is that of killed enemies of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, a major Putin ally.
The Novaya Gazeta newspaper, where Muratov is editor-in-chief, in early March said it would remove material on Russia s military actions in Ukraine from its website because of censorship.