Theme: Assassinations
Deaths that may be attributable to state-sponsored assassination.
Events
- April 21, 1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev, Chechen President, assassinated whilst talking to Konstantin …
- April 12, 1997 Policeman Vladimir Tskhai, who uncovered Lazovksy/FSB/gangs, dies - probably po…
- July 4, 1998 Lev Rokhlin, Army General (ret.), Yeltsin critic, assassinated
- Aug. 24, 1998 Journalist Anatoly Levin-Utkin beaten to death after research Putin FSB story
- Nov. 20, 1998 Galina Starovoytova, liberal politician & campaigner, assassinated.
- Feb. 19, 2000 Suspicious death of Anatoly Sobchak, ex Mayor of St Petersburg & Putin's 1st po…
- Feb. 20, 2000 Nikolai Spirin, Lazovsky's driver, murdered
- March 9, 2000 Artyom Borovik, TV star journalist researching bombings, dies in private plane …
- April 28, 2000 Maxim Lazovsky, FSB officer accused by Litvinenko of orchestrating 1999 bombing…
- Aug. 1, 2000 Vladimir Romanovich, possible bomber, reported to have died in hit & run in Cyp…
- Sept. 21, 2000 Iskandar Khatloni, Journalist, Murdered (Chechnya reporting)
- Oct. 15, 2000 Italian Journalist Antonio Russo murdered in Georgia
- May 1, 2001 German Ugryumov, FSB Counter Terrorism Chief, dies - rumours of suicide/assasin…
- March 20, 2002 Ibn al-Khattab, accussed of 1999 bombings, killed by FSB via poisoned letter
- April 28, 2002 Alexander Lebed dies in helicopter crash
- Aug. 20, 2002 Politician Vladimir Golovlyov assassinated (Yushenkov ally)
- April 17, 2003 Sergei Yushenkov, chair of Duma Bombings Commission, shot in Moscow
- July 3, 2003 Yury Shchekochikhin murdered by poisoning. Medical details classified by govern…
- June 19, 2004 Nikolai Girenko, Human Rights campaigner, assassinated in St Petersburg
- July 9, 2004 Paul Klebnikov assassinated
- Sept. 11, 2004 Roman Tsepov killed by polonium poisoning
- April 10, 2005 Anatoly Trofimov, retired FSB General, head of investigations, assassinated
- Oct. 7, 2006 Anna Politkovskaya shot
- Oct. 30, 2006 Igor Ponomarev, Russian official, unexplained death at 41 after meeting Litvine…
- Nov. 23, 2006 Alexander Litvinenko dies from poisoning
- Oct. 26, 2007 Assassination attempt on Malik Saidullaev
- Jan. 19, 2009 Stanslav Markelov, Human Rights lawyer, assassinated
- July 15, 2009 Natalia Estemirova, Human Rights activist & journalist, assassinated
- March 23, 2013 Berezovsky found dead in Surrey, open verdict murder or suicide
- Feb. 17, 2015 Boris Nemtsov assassinated
- Nov. 5, 2015 Mikhail Lesin dies in Washington. Minister of Press, Broadcasting and Mass Com…
- March 4, 2018 Skripal Poisoning
- March 13, 2018 Nikolai Glushkov, Berezovsky partner murdered in Surrey