Saturday, 26 August 2023

Prigozhin Putin's Latest Victim

As soon as he turned on Vladimir Putin and was accused of stabbing him in the back, it was never going to end well for Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin who was last seen falling from the sky in a flaming plane above Russia along with nine unfortunate victims who were literally in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Prigozhin then joins a growing list of critics of the Russian President who met untimely deaths including the former Russian FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko who was given tea at a meeting poisoned with radioactive polonium-210.
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot four times at close range during a shopping trip after reporting on state corruption and Boris Berezovsky fled to Britain from Russia to escape Putin after criticising him although putting distance between them didn't stop him being found dead in his bathroom and fleeing to Britain almost never worked for Sergei Skripal who was accused of spying against Russia and had the deadly poison Novichok smeared on his houses door handle and was found slumped on a bench although he survived.
The Russian opposition leader, Boris Nemtsov, was gunned down outside the Kremlin as he walked home and a human rights campaigner was kidnapped and shot in the head when she began compiling evidence of Russian war crimes in Chechnya, a theme picked up by journalist Paul Klebnikov which led to the same murderous conclusion as he was gunned down outside his office.
Denis Voronenkov spoke out against Putin and was another recipient of a Putin ordered hit after he tried to flee into Ukraine and Ukraine was also the place where Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Russian oil producer Lukoil, who criticised the war in Ukraine and then found himself 'falling' from a sixth floor window, the former top Lukoil executive, Alexander Subbotin's body was discovered in the basement of his country house.
Prigozhin should therefore probably have finished the job he started and gone all out to remove Putin from power because if we know anything about Putin, it's that he really, really holds grudges.

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