13. Many of the people who have publicly criticized Vladimir Putin’s government have ended up in exile, under house arrest, in prison, or have died under mysterious or unexplainable circumstances.
A former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko was recently poisoned by a lethal dose of radioactive polonium, with his tea spiked with it during a meeting with two former Russian security servicemen. He has said that the Russian Federal Security Service orchestrated a series of bombings in 1999 that left hundreds dead and led to Russia’s invasion of Chechnya a year later. It is the opinion of many Putin opponents that it isn’t a coincidence that critics of the leader and his government have been killed, exiled, under house arrest or put in jail, even though the Kremlin has denied those accusations
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