A Poisoning in Moscow

Wall Street Journal ^ | February 3, 2017

[reaganaut1]

In 2015 a prominent Russian opposition activist named Vladimir Kara-Murza inexplicably suffered multiple organ failure and barely survived after falling into a coma for nearly a week. On Thursday it happened to him again, in much the same way. Since this happened in Moscow, we assume the explanation isn’t innocent.

Mr. Kara-Murza, 35, is a former journalist who worked for a Russian TV station in Washington until he was fired from his job in 2012. That year he testified before the U.S. Congress in favor of the Magnitsky Act, which places financial sanctions and travel bans on corrupt Russian officials. Mr. Kara-Murza described the law as a “pro-Russian bill which provides a much-needed measure of accountability for those who continue to violate the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens.”

That could not have endeared him to the Kremlin. Nor could his close association with Boris Nemtsov, the Russian opposition politician who was assassinated near the Kremlin in February 2015. Three months later Mr. Kara-Murza became ill after eating lunch at a restaurant. He told CNN that “there is no other possible reason” than politics for his poisoning.

[reaganaut1]

Bad things often happen to Putin's opponents.

[HLPhat]

[Trump loyalist Roger Stone claims he was POISONED with polonium (Truncated)]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3515363/posts?page=28

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Roger+Stone+Poisoned

[Dr. Sivana]

I think he is going to have to buy random changing imported canned foods and bottled drinks for the foreseeable future.

[PGR88]

Bad things often happen to Putin's opponents.

He's the Hillary Clinton of Russia.

[drop 50 and fire for effect]

“Thursday it happened to him again, in much the same way.”

Moscow is a marvelous place for coincidence...

[Helicondelta]

“Mr. Kara-Murza became ill after eating lunch at a restaurant.”

LOL. Give me a break. If he had been poisoned he would be dead.

But no, let’s brand Putin a killer and start a war with Russia because Kara-Murza had a bad meal. These Russian conspiracies are pathetic.

[DaveA37]

“U.S. Congress in favor of the Magnitsky Act, which places financial sanctions and travel bans on corrupt Russian officials.”...........

They “Mafnitsky Act” needs to be modified to include all U.S. Federal politicians, not just Russians.

[Rome2000]

Not surprisingly, he has few opponents.

Works really well.

No illegal alien or MOZLUM problem either.

[silverleaf]

If it happened in Moscow, the only reasonable explanation is that Putin did it

[silverleaf]

I think the Mexican government tried to poison me
It happened at a restaurant in Cancun
Pena Nieto is a thug and killer!

[RitchieAprile]

sounds like its easy to get a bad meal in Moscow especially if you have the wrong political views.

[montag813]

Yes, Putin is a killer. So was Bill Clinton, who murdered 2,000 Serb civilians in his sick obsession with creating a Muslim terror state in the heart of Europe. His wife had Gadaffi murdered for absolutely no reason...unleashing ISIS chaos in Libya and the torrent of 1 million+ Muslim migrant flood for Europe. JFK had Diem murdered in South Vietnam just ten days before his own slaying. This is nothing new. Michael Corleone told the truth in 1974. Only a fool thinks we don't have people murdered, even in our own country.

[RummyChick]

I think most people in the US..or at least on FR.. realize Putin kills people.

I think most people realize US kills people that are in their way. They just pretend we don’t.

[indthkr]

"He told CNN that “there is no other possible reason” than politics for his poisoning."

I suspect that crossing any of the business oligarchs in Russia will get you a similar result.

[Nifster]

Roger is a liar. Odd that he claimed this just as jos book tour started. Offer still that he was pitching Alex Jones products as his reason for being alive

[Proyecto Anonimo]

WSJ is 100% certain this Russian man was poisoned. In this Russian case, WSJ used Kara’s previous health issues to prove that there WAS foul play.

But in March of 2012, WSJ was 100% certain Breitbart died of natural causes. Notice how WSJ in 2012 used Breitbart’s previous health issues to prove that there was NO foul play.

Typical MSM duplicity.

[HLPhat]

>>Roger is a liar.

If that's true then it would certainly be actionable - for folks like those who are still butt-hurt about Yebster's ride on the cart.

 

YMMV, but the fortunate fact remains that the historical weight of a Stone (and his anti-communist associations) formed the perceptual counterbalance to Trump's Russian entanglements -- and tipped the popular (and electoral) balance, just bigly enough, in our favor.

[elhombrelibre]

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2013/05/putin_condemned.html

http://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2012/mar/11/journalist-safety-vladimir-putin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/19/AR2009011902604.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11212072/Russian-actor-and-Putin-critic-found-dead-in-Moscow.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Anna_Politkovskaya

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mi5-believe-vladimir-putin-behind-3897973

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/dec/18/observer-editorial-putin-russia-journalists-murdered

http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2014/07/16/open-letter-to-russias-putin-on-tenth-anniversary-of-forbes-editor-paul-klebnikovs-murder-why-havent-you-solved-this-case/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10728908/Billionaire-critic-of-Putin-may-have-been-murdered-rules-coroner.html http://www.amazon.com/Putins-Labyrinth-Spies-Murder-Russia/dp/0812978412

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/22/brits-investigate-the-assassination-of-the-spy-who-warned-us-about-putin.html#

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/21/malaysia-airlines-flight-father-letter_n_5607856.html

http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2014/07/13/19336.shtml

November 1998 - Less than four months after Putin takes over at the KGB, opposition Duma Deputy Galina Starovoitova, the most prominent pro-democracy Kremlin critic in the nation, is murdered at her apartment building in St. Petersburg.

April 2003 - Sergei Yushenkov, co-chairman of the Liberal Russia political party, is gunned down at the entrance of his Moscow apartment block. Yushenkov had been serving as the vice chair of the group known as the “Kovalev Commission” which was formed to informally investigate charges that Putin’s KGB had planted the Pechatniki and Kashirskoye apartment bombs

July 2003 - Yuri Shchekochikhin , a vocal opposition journalist and member of the Russian Dumaand the Kovalev Commission, suddenly contracts a mysterious illness. After his sudden death on July 3rd. The Russian authorities refused to allow an autopsy, his relatives “managed to send a specimen of his skin to London, where a tentative diagnosis was made of poisoning with thallium” (a poison commonly used by the KGB, at first suspected in the Litvinenko killing).

June 2004 - Nikolai Girenko, a prominent human rights defender, Professor of Ethnology and expert on racism and discrimination in the Russian Federation is shot dead in his home in St Petersburg.

July 2004 - Paul Klebnikov, editor of the Russian edition Forbes magazine, is shot and killed in Moscow.

September 2004 - Viktor Yushchenko, anti-Russian candidate for the presidency of the Ukraine, is poisoned by Dioxin. Yushchenko’s chief of staff OlegRibachuk suggests that the poison used was amycotoxin called T-2, also known as “Yellow Rain,” a Soviet-era substance which was reputedly used in Afghanistan as a chemical weapon. Miraculously, he survives the attack.

September 2006 - Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Central Bank, who strove to stamp out money laundering the highest-ranking reformer in Russia, is shot and killed in Moscow.

October 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, author of countless books and articles exposing Russian human rights violations in Chechnya and attacking Vladimir Putin as a dictator, is shot and killed at her home in Moscow.

November 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, KGB defector and author of the book Blowing up Russia, which accuses the Kremlin of masterminding the and Pechatniki and Kashirskoye bombings in order to blame Chechen terrorists and whip up support for an invasion of Chechnya (which shortly followed), is fatally poisoned by radioactive Polonium obtained from Russian sources.

On January 19, 2009, Russian human rights attorney Stanslav Markelov was shot in the back of the head with a silenced pistol as he left a press conference at which he announced his intention to sue the Russian government for its early release of the Col. Yuri Budanov, who murdered his 18-year-old client in Chechnya five years earlier. Also shot and killed was Anastasia Barburova, a young journalism student who was working for Novaya Gazeta and who had studied under Anna Politkovskaya, reporting on the Budanov proceedings.

On July 14, 2009, leading Russian human rights journalist and activist Natalia Estemirova , a single mother of a teenaged daughter, was abducted in front of her home in Grozny, Chechnya, spirited across the border into Ingushetia, shot and dumped in a roadside gutter.

http://larussophobe.wordpress.com/putinmurders/ Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3dd_1401997313#XRRREys6DwG6l1tA.99

[dila813]

Or is it more likely that the Russian Mob saw him as a threat to their power and wealth not to mention their nationalistic pride was insulted?

I don’t know if people in a US Hospital wouldn’t look the other way if they knew the police are corrupt and on the take when they know their family is at risk.

The Kremlin isn’t the only boogie man in Russia.

[elhombrelibre]

Here’s a list of Putin critics who've ended up dead

http://www.businessinsider.de/list-of-people-putin-is-suspected-of-assassinating-2016-3?r=US&IR=T