Navalny, Prigozhin, Boris Nemtsov: Kremlin foes have faced early death, nerve agents, poison during Putin's reign
Yevgeny Prigozhin, when he lost his life ina plane crash, just two months after he led a rebellion towards Moscow, aiming to overthrow the Russian military leadership. There also have been reports of prominent Russian executives dying under mysterious circumstances, including falling from windows, although whether they were deliberate killings or suicides is sometimes difficult to determine. The attacks range from the exotic — poisoned by drinking polonium-laced tea or touching a deadly nerve agent — to the more mundane of getting shot at close range.
Some take a fatal plunge from an open window. Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and investigative journalists have been killed or assaulted in a variety of ways. Alexei Navalny, was vocal critic of Vladimir Putin.
In August 2020, the opposition leader Navalny fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow. The plane landed in the city of Omsk, where Navalny was hospitalized in a coma. Two days later, he was airlifted to Berlin, where he recovered.
When Germany, France and Sweden tested samples, they confirmed that Navalny had been poisoned by a potent Soviet-era nerve agent known as Novichok The highest profile killing of a political opponent was that of Boris Nemtsov. Once deputy prime minister under Boris Yeltsin, Nemtsov was a popular politician and harsh critic of Vladimir Putin. On a cold February night in 2015, he was gunned down by assailants on a bridge adjacent to the Kremlin as he walked with his girlfriend in a death that shocked the country.
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