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assassination
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Ukrainian-Crimean Tatar underground takes credit for assassination attempt on top Russian propagandist
One of the most prominent propagandists of the Kremlin’s aggression and a vocal supporter of Vladimir Putin and…
06/05/2023
Ukrainian partisans bomb quisling police chief in Russian-occupied Mariupol
A car explosion in Russian-occupied Mariupol at 8:07, targeting the car of a Russian top-commander, was organized by…
27/03/2023
Man who plotted to kill Ukraine’s defense minister, spy chief at Russia’s behest sentenced to 12 years
A Ukrainian citizen who served in Russia’s proxy “Luhansk People’s Republic” and planned to kill Ukrainian citizens on…
16/03/2023
Putin has two reasons to kill his opponents and the West has to counter both, Shulipa says
Yury Shulipa, author of How Putin Kills Abroad, says that Putin has two reasons for doing away with…
11/04/2021
The political dimension of Russia’s spy war in Ukraine
Since the beginning of the undeclared Russian-Ukrainian war in early 2014, the secret services of both countries have…
03/05/2020
Putin created unit that blew up apartment blocks in 1999 a year ahead of time, Kruglov says
Drawing on his contacts that he had developed with the criminal world during his first years in the…
04/04/2020
Browder, Navalny and Pugachev likely top Putin’s hit list, Eidman says
Political murders in Russia are always ordered by the top man rather than being the decision of some…
23/09/2018
Who’s most at risk of assassination by Putin’s siloviki? Kirillova provides a typology
One of the reasons Vladimir Putin and his regime are able to get away with so many of…
23/07/2018
Was the faked “murder” of Russian journalist Babchenko really necessary?
In the evening of 29 May, Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was reportedly shot dead in his back on…
31/05/2018
Exiled Putin critic, Russian journalist Babchenko assassinated in Kyiv [UPDATE: he is actually alive]
Arkady Babchenko, a Russian opposition journalist who fled to Ukraine has been shot in his home in the…
30/05/2018
In Skripal case, Kremlin following procedures it used for earlier political murders, Pastukhov says
At first glance, Vladimir Pastukhov says, Moscow’s approach to the Skripal scandal appears “irrational and inadequate, in fact,…
14/04/2018
Also in Russia a Russian hand is seen behind the nerve-gas attack in Salisbury
For the British government and any normally-thinking person, it is clear that in one way or the other…
19/03/2018
The bold assassination attempt on ex-Russian spy Sergey Skripal in Salisbury, England
A few days ago, former Russian military intelligence (GRU) colonel Sergey Skripal was found unconscious with his daughter in the…
15/03/2018
Moscow’s development of poisons like one used against Skripal has long history and dark shadow
Felix Kubin, a Russian who defected to the US in 2013, says that he was approached before that…
11/03/2018
Volunteer Mariya Berlinska’s outraged cry: “And when they come for us…
… Everything’s very clear… we all know what really happened. (On June 1, 2017, Amina Okueva and her…
03/11/2017
Ukrainian veteran, ethnic Chechen Amina Okuyeva assassinated near Kyiv
Her car was ambushed at a rail crossing near the settlement of Hlevakha in Kyiv Oblast, gunfire was…
31/10/2017
Russia assassinated at least 13 Chechens abroad before victim returned fire in Kyiv
Read more: Man accused of Putin murder plot gunned down in Kyiv, attacker might be linked to Kadyrov…
21/06/2017
Man accused of Putin murder plot gunned down in Kyiv, attacker might be linked to Kadyrov
Adam Osmayev and his wife Amina Okuyeva, Chechen volunteers who served in the Kyiv-2 police battalion fighting against…
03/06/2017
Another warlord killed: Mystery grows as series of deaths in Russian-backed enclaves continues
On 8 February 2017, at 6:12 AM, Mykhailo Tolstykh, callsign “Givi,” was killed in his office in occupied…
09/02/2017
Worldwide Rallies to Commemorate Anniversary of Boris Nemtsov Murder
For followers of events in and around Russia and Ukraine, February is a brutal month. You need true…
22/02/2016