A former KGB agent isn’t the only Putin critic to wind up dead
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is back in the news after a British inquiry found that Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, “probably” approved the ex-KGB agent’s 2006 murder by poisoning in London. The allegation has riled the Kremlin and threatens to further damage relations between Russia and the UK. But it also brings to mind the many other critics of the regime who, like Litvinenko, have met an untimely end.
Russian officials have regularly denied any roles in these mysterious deaths, but their circumstances have long raised suspicions. Here, GlobalPost looks at just a few:
Boris NemtsovThe most recent mysterious death is of former opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was fatally shot just outside the Kremlin last February. Shortly before his murder, he was helping to compile a report detailing what he said was Russia’s clandestine military involvement in the eastern Ukraine crisis.
Officials have sought to Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is back in the news after a British inquiry found that Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, “probably” approved the ex-KGB agent’s 2006 murder by poisoning in London.
The allegation has riled the Kremlin and threatens to further damage relations between Russia and the UK. But it also brings to mind the many other critics of the regime who, like Litvinenko, have met an untimely end.
Russian officials have regularly denied any roles in these mysterious deaths, but their circumstances have long raised suspicions. Here, GlobalPost looks at just a few:
Boris NemtsovThe most recent mysterious death is of former opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was fatally shot just outside the Kremlin last February. Shortly before his murder, he was helping to compile a report detailing what he said was Russia’s clandestine military involvement in the eastern Ukraine crisis.
Officials have sought to 
