[elhombrelibre]

Fans of Putin won't like this report from FOX NEWS.

[elhombrelibre]

Among the more notable cases:

•Sergei Yushenkov was gunned down in front of his home in April 2003. Yushenkov was part of a commission that investigated claims the KGB orchestrated bombings to ignite support for Putin’s war against Chechnya. A second member of the commission was fatally poisoned, a third nearly lost his life after being severely beaten, and the attorney for the commission was imprisoned for espionage.

•Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov was shot to death in Moscow in July 2004, after he reportedly uncovered a money-laundering scheme that reached the highest levels of the Kremlin. Two suspects were charged, but later acquitted. He was one of more than 300 journalists in Russia who have disappeared or been murdered since 1993, according to a June 2009 report from the International Federation of Journalists.

•In June 2004, human rights advocate and professor Nikolai Girenko was assassinated in his home.

•Andrei Kozlov, a top official at Russia’s Central Bank who dedicated his career to eliminating money laundering, was killed in September 2006.

•Anna Politkovskaya, who wrote books and articles accusing Putin of human rights violations in Chechnya, was executed in an elevator in her Moscow apartment building on Oct. 7, 2006.

•Human rights attorney Stanislav Markelov was shot in the head in January 2009, as he left a press conference where he announced plans to sue the Russian government. Journalism student Anastasia Barburova was killed as she tried to intervene.

•Human rights journalist Natalia Estemirova, was killed in July 2009, after being kidnapped from her home in Chechnya.

Two well-known cases of the poisoning of Putin adversaries involved former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmmm ..?? JUST LIKE THE 80 PEOPLE WHO DIED BECAUSE OF THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CLINTONS.

[grania]

Isn't a little weird that this guy was walking around Moscow at night with just his girlfriend? A few days before a major protest in the city, no less. I thought these guys had private militias to protect them. Someone had to know when he was going to leave a restaurant with the girlfriend, yet nobody detected him being followed?

Most spy thriller movies are less strange.

[armydawg505]

I don’t call him Adolf Putin for no reason.

[tlozo]

I think it was a journalist that commented that the non reaction of the kremlin presidental guard to the shooting was the most telling. They never came out to investigate the shooting. In an area where even pointing a telephoto camera at the kremlin wall can get you questioned, there is no reaction to a shooting.