October 7, 2006. Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist of Novaya Gazeta, was killed with four shots in the elevator of his apartment building in Moscow. It was known in Russia and abroad for the dua determination in denouncing the authoritarian government of Putin and the many abuses committed by Russian forces in Chechnya. On 19 February 2009, after 12 hours of deliberation, the jury of the Moscow emit a court acquittal for lack of evidence against the accused of the crime. On October 7, 2014, the third process, get a life sentence for the perpetrators Chechens. Still unknown the instigators of the murder.
23 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer and then a dissident who took refuge in the UK, died in a London hospital after being poisoned with polonium during a meeting with two Russian agents. In 2002 he published a book (Blowing up Russia: Terror From Within), funded dall'oligarcaBoris Berezovsky, in which he accused Russian agents of being the real culprits of the attacks of 1999 that made more than three hundred victims.
March 23, 2013. The Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, former eminence grise of the Kremlin from time entered on a collision course with Vladimir Putin and fled to Britain, is found dead in the bathroom of his home near Ascot, Surrey. In 1996 he was among the leaders of the re-election of Boris Yeltsin as head of state, then earning a reputation as the eminence grise of the Kremlin. Turned-opponent of the Kremlin is self-exile in London where he began to finance the opposition. Note in particular its links with Aleksandr Litvinenko.
April 17, 2003. Sergei Yushchenko was assassinated a few hours after the registration of his political party, which wanted to participate in the parliamentary elections of December 2003. He was a liberal Russian politician well known for his uncompromising struggle for democracy, for rapid economic reforms laissez faire and for more human rights.
3 July 2003. Yuri Schekochihin, a known Duma deputy, investigative journalist for Novaya Gazeta, a colleague of Anna Politkovskaya, ends up in hospital suffering from a mysterious disease. Sixteen days after admission dies. It is suspected contamination by polonium, similar to the one that killed three years after the former KGB officer Litvinenko.
July 9, 2004. Russian-American journalist Paul Klebnikov, the Forbes Russia, was killed in front of his office to gunshots by hired assassins Caucasians. And 'what more openly and in detail described the dense network of state, politics, business and criminal groups in his book Godfather of the Kremlin - Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia published in 2000 by Harcourt.
