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  • Ex-NSDC chief Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in Lviv. Ukrainian President Zelenskiy confirmed the killing. Russia had accused him of 2014 Donbass atrocities.

    08/30/2025 6:47:19 PM PDT · by EnderWiggin1970 · 13 replies
    voennoedelo ^ | 8/30/25 | William Moore
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed that Andriy Parubiy, a former Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council who was implicated in the tragic events at the Trade Unions House in Odessa on May 2, 2014, was shot dead in Lviv. Zelenskiy announced that Parubiy was killed in Lviv and assured that all necessary resources have been mobilized to investigate and identify the shooter. The incident took place at approximately 10:35 a.m. local time. As Parubiy was walking along a street, a gunman disguised as a delivery courier approached him and fired multiple shots at close range before fleeing the...
  • Former Ukrainian parliament speaker shot dead in Lviv

    08/30/2025 10:53:44 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    DNYUZ.com ^ | August 30, 2025 | DNYUZ
    A prominent Ukrainian politician and former parliament speaker has been shot dead in western Ukraine, officials said, as a search was under way to find the attacker. Andriy Parubiy, who also previously served as secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, was killed in the city of Lviv on Saturday.The Prosecutor General’s office said a gunman had fired several shots at Parubiy, killing him “on the spot”. The attacker fled, and a manhunt was launched, it said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the killing as a “horrendous murder” and offered his condolences to Parubiy’s family and loved ones.“All necessary forces...
  • Putin's enemies keep falling out of high windows in Russia - it's no accident

    08/28/2025 7:17:38 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 17 replies
    Express US ^ | 8/28/2025 | Michael Evans, Brigid Brown
    In the last 30 months, an estimated 17 Russian officials, politicians, businessmen and leading figures in the arts have died after falling from high windows. The window on the fifth floor of a building in the historic city of Petrozavodsk in northwestern Russia was wide open when the figure of a man appeared briefly, before plunging to the ground. This was followed by Putin enforcing a "blanket ban" on social media apps from enemy countries. The mangled body of former police colonel, Artur Pryakhin, head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service in the republic of Karelia, was hauled off to the...
  • Dmitry Kovtun, Russian agent implicated in the radioactive poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006, is dead.

    06/04/2022 6:03:16 AM PDT · by lump in the melting pot · 17 replies
    Twitter, Wikipedia ^ | June 4, 2022 | Oliver Carroll
    Dmitry Kovtun is dead, say reports. Mr Kovtun led an unusual life: from wannabe porn star, rubbish collector, waiter and alcoholic, to one of two Russian agents implicated in the radioactive poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in 2006. What dreams are made of.
  • Russian oligarch, Kremlin critic Berezovsky dies in Britain

    03/25/2013 2:31:43 PM PDT · by Red Badger
    AFP ^ | 03-24-2013 | By Alice Ritchie
    LONDON — Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian oligarch and long-time opponent of the Kremlin, died at his home in Britain on Saturday aged 67 in unexplained circumstances, officials said. British police launched a full investigation into the death at the mansion in the well-heeled commuter town of Ascot, near London, saying it was "currently being treated as unexplained". Berezovsky's lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky told Russian television the tycoon had committed suicide after suffering from weeks of depression over his huge debts, although another friend strongly denied this. Berezovsky was one of handful of businessmen who made a fortune out of the...
  • Putin parades ‘Litvinenko assassin’ on TV to rant nuke war would see ‘Russians go to heaven and West banished to hell’

    11/29/2024 11:57:26 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 25 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 11/29/2024 | Sayan Bose Will Stewart
    A NUCLEAR armageddon will see "Russians go to heaven and the West banished to hell", a Kremlin propagandist has said in a bizarre TV rant. Top Putin crony Andrey Lugovoy - who is accused of assassinating former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko on British soil - said the dictator could "end human history" with his hypersonic nuclear arsenal. -snip- The propagandist then went on to say Putin would destroy the entire world and "end the human race" in case of a nuclear war. And that the West will go to hell. He added: "[Nuke war] will be the end of human...
  • Is this Alexander Litvinenko's beyond the grave attack on Putin?

    01/24/2015 7:24:02 PM PST · by No One Special · 14 replies
    Telegraph UK ^ | January 23, 2015 | Lyndsey Telford, Edward Malnick and Claire Newell
    A tape apparently recorded by murdered Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko a year before he was poisoned has revealed he was digging up links between Vladimir Putin and one of the world’s most dangerous terrorists. A Telegraph investigation uncovered the audio recording, in which the dissident claims from beyond the grave that Russia’s president had a “good relationship” with Semion Mogilevich - a Ukrainian crime boss who was on the FBI's most wanted list and whom Mr Litvinenko believed was selling weapons to al-Qaeda. The apparent recording of Mr Litvinenko is published for the first time ahead of a public inquiry...
  • ‘Signs of torture’ found on body of sacked Putin minister who ‘died 24 hours before’ apparent suicide

    07/11/2025 3:48:57 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 14 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 7/10/2025 | Sayan Bose, Will Stewart
    THE Kremlin has been accused of covering up the death of a sacked Russian minister after signs of torture were allegedly found on his body just 24 hours before his apparent suicide. Roman Starovoit, who was Vladimir Putin's transport minister for less than a year, was dismissed from his post on July 7 - just hours before he was found dead. Telegram channels with links to the Russian security forces reported Starovoit's cause of death as suicide - claiming the minister was found dead with gunshot wounds. However, an independent Russian media outlet now reports that he had been beaten...
  • Glam much-younger girlfriend who ID’d Putin minister’s body could be BANNED from funeral as ‘suicide’ mystery deepens

    07/09/2025 9:49:34 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 19 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 7/9/2025 | Annabel Bate
    THE girlfriend of Vladimir Putin's transport official who was found dead ahead of a fraud inquiry could be banned from his funeral. Roman Starovoit, 53, was sacked by Vlad on Monday after he couldn't stop Ukraine causing mayhem to Russia's aviation industry - and was found dead hours later. He was found beside his Tesla with a bullet wound to his head as the mystery behind his "suicide" deepens. Now it has emerged that his long-term girlfriend, 25-year-old Polina Korneeva, might be barred from attending his funeral. Polina was brought to the scene by law enforcement to identify the corpse...
  • Russian transport minister is found dead with gunshot wound 'in his Tesla' hours after being sacked by Putin

    07/07/2025 8:04:41 AM PDT · by dennisw · 32 replies
    UK Mail ^ | 7 July 2025 | By PERKIN AMALARAJ and WILL STEWART
    Russia's sacked transport minister has been found dead in his Tesla outside Moscow with a gunshot wound and the principal hypothesis is that he took his own life, state investigators said on Monday, hours after President Vladimir Putin fired him. A presidential decree published earlier on Monday gave no reason for the dismissal of Roman Starovoit after barely a year in the job, though political analysts were quick to raise the possibility that he may have been dismissed in connection with an investigation into corruption in the region he once ran. Reuters could not independently confirm these suggestions, though a...
  • Russia: Terrorists open fire on church and synagogues in Dagestan, 18 officers dead

    06/24/2024 12:21:20 AM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 16 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/6/24
    15 police officers and several civilians, including an Orthodox priest, killed in terrorist attack in Dagestan. Foreign Ministry: No Israelis or Jews among the victims. X link
  • Belarus foreign minister dies suddenly after speculation he'd been discussing secret peace plan

    11/26/2022 10:02:23 AM PST · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 20 replies
    MailOnline ^ | 26 November 2022 | Will Stewart
    Belarus foreign minister dies suddenly - one day after meeting Pope's envoy Ante Jozić amid speculation they were discussing a secret peace plan in Ukraine. CAREER SPY Makei had been foreign minister for a decade and was due tomorrow and Monday to host Vladimir Putin's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov in Minsk. Lavrov's spokeswoman said Russia was 'shocked' at his passing. No cause of death was given - but several sources speculated that his demise could be suspicious. Makei was described as 'healthy'. He had been trained in the Soviet GRU and had a reputation as Lukashenko's 'grey cardinal'. While Lukashenko...
  • Vladimir Putin rival and Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny dies in prison

    02/16/2024 3:50:24 AM PST · by deks · 142 replies
    The Mirror ^ | February 16, 2024 | Liam Buckler
    Vladimir Putin's fierce rival and critic Alexei Navalny has died, according to the prison service. The Russian opposition leader, who was the most prominent and persistent domestic foe of President Vladimir Putin, had been serving a 19-year sentence on an extremism conviction. He had been incarcerated in central Russia’s Vladimir region, 140 miles east of Moscow. Navalny has been behind bars in Russia since January 2021, when he returned to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin. Before his arrest, he campaigned against official corruption and organized major anti-Kremlin protests.
  • Ukrainian war dead reaches 43,000, Zelensky says in rare update

    12/08/2024 1:03:04 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 41 replies
    BBC News ^ | Dec. 8, 2024 | Alex Binley and Jonathan Beale
    Some 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion began, Volodymyr Zelensky has said in a rare admission of the extent of the nation's casualties. In a post on social media, the Ukrainian president said 370,000 injuries had been reported, though this figure included soldiers who had been hurt more than once and some of the injuries were said to be minor. He also claimed that 198,000 Russian soldiers had been killed and a further 550,000 wounded. The BBC has not been able to verify either side's figures.
  • Russian ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov, outspoken critic of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, falls 60 feet to his death

    11/18/2024 3:48:37 PM PST · by Apparatchik · 50 replies
    NY Post ^ | 18 November 2024 | Isabel Keane
    A Russian ballet dancer who was an outspoken critic of Russia’s war in Ukraine has mysteriously plunged to his death from the fifth floor of a building. Vladimir Shklyarov, a married father of two, plummeted around 60 feet to the ground from a building on Saturday, a spokesperson for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, where the 39-year-old was the highest-ranking dancer, told Fontanka. Russian authorities initially labeled the fall an accident, blaming the painkillers he was taking before a complex spinal surgery. However, he joins numerous other critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin who have met untimely ends —...
  • Russian accused of killing Alexander Litvinenko reportedly dies from Covid-19

    06/10/2022 12:35:44 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Daily Star (U.K.) ^ | 5 JUN 2022 | Jamie Barwick
    One of two men believed by British intelligence to have poisoned a Russian spy’s tea with a rare radioactive substance in London has died, according to a state-owned news agencyOne of the men accused of killing former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London has died of Covid-19 in Moscow, according to reports. Dmitri Kovtun was one of two men who a UK inquiry ruled had poisoned Litvinenko’s tea with a rare radioactive substance back in 2006. Reports from state-owned Russian news agency Tass said Kovtun contracted coronavirus before dying in a Moscow hospital. Kovtun, along with Andrei Lugovoi, was...
  • Murdered Former KGB Spy Had Accused Putin of Pedophilia

    01/22/2016 1:45:13 AM PST · by Berlin_Freeper · 12 replies
    americasurvival.org ^ | January 22, 2016 | Alexander Litvinenko
    Read the article that may have gotten Alexander Litvinenko Killed
  • Russia suffers 'its deadliest day of the war with 1,950 killed' - with fresh humiliation for Putin after two-day Kursk counter offensive ends with 28 tanks blown up and 100 troops dead

    11/12/2024 6:29:28 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 39 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 11/12/2024 | MIRIAM KUEPPER
    Russia has suffered its deadliest day of the war in Ukraine so far, with 1,950 soldiers killed in just 24 hours, according to the Ukrainian army. Vladimir Putin's losses in the war against Ukraine are piling up after thousands of Russian soldiers died in the last two days alone, with 1,770 soldiers being killed on Sunday and another 1,950 on Monday. The record number of 1,950 troops dying within a day serves as fresh humiliation for Putin after his two-day Kursk counter offensive on the weekend ended with 28 tanks blown up and 100 troops killed, according to reports. Footage...
  • Russian corruption reporter dies from head injury

    06/30/2009 12:15:39 PM PDT · by Califreak · 8 replies · 389+ views
    Southern Ledger ^ | 6/30/09 | Karina Loffee
    A local corruption reporter in Russia died of head injuries on Monday in what police said Tuesday was a drunken fall. Colleagues, on the other hand, are sure it was a revenge attack for muckraking journalism. Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, 63, the editor of a Rostov-on-Don newspaper whose name translates as Corruption and Crime died Monday of a severe head injury sustained April 30. Police say Yaroshenko was drunk and hit his head on the stairs, but colleagues claim Yaroshenko was attacked. "I have no doubt that the attack was directly connected to Yaroshenko's writing and is payback for his journalistic work,"...
  • Russia's richest woman sues Forbes magazine(wife of Moscow mayor)

    02/14/2007 3:07:46 AM PST · by TigerLikesRooster · 6 replies · 499+ views
    Reuters ^ | 02/14/07
    Russia's richest woman sues Forbes magazine MOSCOW, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Russia's richest woman, who is also the wife of Moscow's mayor, is suing the Russian edition of Forbes magazine for defamation over a story detailing her business interests, her company said on Wednesday. A spokesman for Yelena Baturina's Inteko firm said it had filed a suit against the magazine and its editor in Russian courts seeking compensation totalling 213,000 roubles ($8,100). "The article published in the December edition of Forbes magazine contains information which is not true," said Inteko spokesman Gennady Terebkov. That information included "the incorrect reproduction of...