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 was caught on camera.
Oleg Krivov, 68 (February 14, 2019) – Diplomat in charge of weapons non-proliferation, found dead in a toilet in the Foreign Ministry in Moscow by a cleaner, from a “suspected heart attack”.
Dmitri Gribov (February 11, 2019) – Head of Centre for Fighting Corruption in Voskresensk, Moscow Oblast, beaten to death by attackers with baseball bats in the entrance to his mother’s building.
Kirill Tomatsky (Detsl), 35 (February 3, 2019) – Rapper, died suddenly of a “heart attack” after a concert in Izhevsk.
Vladimir Chernikov, 54,(January 27, 2019) – Head of the department for regional security and combating corruption of the Moscow city government, responsible for banning protests, died suddenly from a “heart attack”.
Vladimir Trotsky (December 3, 2018) – Blogger from Novy Oskol, Belgorod Oblast, who had been convicted in court of insulting local authorities, found in his bathroom with his throat and veins cut. Investigators said they suspected suicide.
Igor Korobov, 62 (November 21, 2018) – General who was head of the GRU, died “after a long illness”. Alexei Kleshko, 48(November 19, 2018) – Deputy speaker of Krasnoyarsk Krai legislative assembly, a member of United Russia and former TV reporter, fell from the window of his flat.
Yevgenia Shishkina, 49(October 10, 2018) – Police colonel investigating serious cases, most recently embezzlement at Aeroflot, shot in the neck and back outside her home in Arkhangelskoye, outside Moscow.
Saak Karapetyan, 58 (October 4, 2018) – Russia’s deputy prosecutor-general, linked to the work of lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, who participated in the notorious Trump Tower meeting, killed in a helicopter crash in Kostroma Oblast. A Russian source later claimed the pilot had been shot twice in the back.
Alexander Zakharchenko, 42 (August 31, 2018) – Leader of the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, killed in a cafe bombing in Donetsk.
Bruno Charles de Cooman, 59 (August 29, 2018) – Belgian vice-president of research and development at Novolipetsk Steel, fell out of a window of the famous House on the Embankment in Moscow in unknown circumstances.
Alexander Zhunev, 34 (August 9, 2018) – Well-known street artist whose work included a portrait of performance art protester Petr Pavlensky, died in his sleep on a train going from Moscow to his home town of Perm.
Orkhan Dzhemal, 51, Alexander Rastorguev, 47, & Kirill Radchenko, 33 (July 30, 2018) – Journalists working for Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s media outlet, investigating Russia’s Wagner mercenaries near Sibut in the Central African Republic. Ambushed shortly after being refused entry to a Wagner base.
Petr Ofitserov,43 (July 13, 2018) – Businessman convicted with Alexei Navalny in 2013 in the “Kirovles” case, denounced by the European Court of Human Rights. Died from a head injury reportedly caused while having an epileptic fit or a stroke.
Dawn Sturgess, 44 (July 8, 2018) – Wiltshire resident believed to have come into contact with Novichok from a contaminated item used to poison Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March.
Andrzej Malczewski, 55 (June 16, 2018) – Founder of sanctioned Mosoblbank, died suddenly in prison, where he was serving a four-year sentence for fraud.
Yelena Gremina, 61 (May 16, 2018) – Founder of liberal theatre Teatr.doc in Moscow that was regularly harassed by authorities, died of “heart and kidney failure” six weeks after her husband Mikhail Ugarov. She was the author of a play about Sergei Magnitsky.
Yuri Kotler, 50 (May 14, 2018) – Former senior member of United Russia and a former vice-president at VTB Bank, found shot in the head in his flat in Moscow after not responding to efforts to contact him for three days. Said to have committed suicide due to debt.
Oleg Belous, 66 (May 8, 2018) – Russia’s ambassador to Portugal, died suddenly in Lisbon.
Mikhail Abramyan, 33 (April 16, 2018) – Krasnodar political and environmental activist, chairman of Southern Environmental Front, died after an undiagnosed illness – friend Andrey Rudomakha, who was beaten himself last December, suspects poisoning.
Maxim Borodin, 32 (April 15, 2018) – Yekaterinburg journalist working for Novy Den agency who had written about the deaths of Russian Wagner contractors in Syria as a result of a US air strike on February 7. Died from his injuries after falling out of a fourth-floor window of his flat on April 13. His editor thinks it was murder.