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Originally posted here. Critics of Vladimir Putin highlighted in red
Yelena Nepomnyashchaya, 47(May 1, 2020) – Acting chief doctor of Kranoyarsk Krai veterans’ hospital, fell out of a window on April 25 during a teleconference with regional officials in which she expressed concern about the lack of PPE.
Natalia Lebedeva (April 24, 2020) – Head of the ambulance service for the Star City centre for training cosmonauts in Moscow, she fell out of a window after being hospitalised for coronavirus. Management had blamed her for an outbreak of coronavirus at the facility.
Imran Aliev (“Mansur Stary”) (January 30, 2020) – Vocal Chechen critic of Ramzan Kadyrov, stabbed to death in the hotel Le Coq Hardi in Lille, France.
Vsevolod Chaplin, 51 (January 26, 2020) – Orthodox cleric who had been sacked as a spokesperson for the church and subsequently criticised Patriarch Kirill, collapsed on a bench outside a church in Moscow.
Alexei “Grin” Krivulya (January 20, 2020) – Deputy commander of “Donetsk People’s Republic” internal troops division, shot three times in the back near the lift in the entrance to the building where he lived in Donetsk.
Alexander Ray, 29 and his wife (December 8, 2019) – Publisher of finance magazine Tinkoff Journal, found dead in Moscow from suspected poisoning.
Dmitri Obretetsky, 49 (November 30, 2019) – Russian businessman knocked down by a car near his home in Oxshott, Surrey.
Nikita Isayev, 41 (November 16, 2019) – Politician, economist and journalist, died suddenly on a train returning from Moscow to Tambov, where he had been supporting people who opposed the construction of a huge landfill.
Ibragim Eldzharkiev and Abdul Akhmed, 30 (November 2, 2019) – Eldzharkiev was the head of the Centre for Countering Extremism for Ingushetia and Akhmed was his relative. Shot dead in an apparent contract killing in a car park in Moscow. Zelimkhan
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40 (August 23, 2019) – Georgian who had fought on the side of Chechen separatists in the Second Chechen War and subsequently joined the Georgian police and participated as a negotiator in the Lopota hostage-taking incident of 2012, shot in an apparent execution in a park in Berlin. The suspect was from Chechnya.
Yelena Grigorieva, 41 (July 19, 2019) – Anti-Putin and LGBT activist, stabbed to death in St. Petersburg. She had complained about receiving death threats. Police arrested a man who had worked at her home.
Mikhail Kurakin, 35 (July 17, 2019) – Investigative journalist found dead in the courtyard of his home in Tolyatti after posting on Facebook, “I don’t know why, but it seems I have serious problems.”
Tatiana Sekerina, 48 (July 11, 2019) – Federal judge involved in cases against corrupt officials, fell from the window of her 15th-floor flat in Volgograd.
Fakhri Mustafayev, 38 (July 10, 2019) – Crimean Tatar found dead in Bakhchisaray a day after going missing. He was the son of a delegate to the council of Crimean Tatar people.
Andrei Kudryashov, 55(June 5, 2019) – Finance chief for Vladimir Putin’s network of underground bunkers, fell from a 15-storey block of flats in Moscow. He had reportedly recently been fired.
Rashid Yagyaev, 61 (April 22, 2019 approx.) – Crimean Tatar businessman from Simferopol went missing on April 22 – his body washed up on a beach on July 9 with a weight attached to it.
Andrei Bakharev, 58 (April 20, 2019) – Director of Gazpromtrans-Orenburg, killed with his wife and driver in the village of Rostoshi. Three attackers were caught on video leaving the scene.
Sergei Shamarin, 62 (April 11, 2019) – Aide to Nikolai Kovalev, who had died six days previously – died in his office in the Duma “from a suspected aneurysm”.
Nikolai Kovalev, 69 (April 5, 2019) – MP in the Duma and former director of the FSB, said to have died “after a long illness”.
Sergei Sokolov, 59 (March 17, 2019, approx.) – FSB general, formerly in the KGB, found dead in his flat in Moscow. He had been dead for at least seven days when he was found on March 24. There was an arsenal of weapons in his flat, but no signs of violence on his body.
Dmitri Shevelev, 38 (March 4, 2019) – Deputy director of Orsk branch of OrenburgEnergo, shot in the entrance to a building in Orsk by a gunman who w