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In 2017, Russian historian and political analyst Valery Solovei asserted Vladimir Putin was about to resign for health-related reasons. [1] Putin did not resign. [1] In 2020, Solovei and others variously claimed that Putin had cancer, Parkinson's disease or leprosy and would imminently resign, a claim which also did not transpire.
A Russian journalist who accused Putin of creating a police state, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006 outside her apartment. When five men were convicted of her murder, the judge found it was ...
Found dead after falling out of the window of his Moscow-area apartment building. [109] November Alexei Zimin: 52 TV Chef and restaurant owner 13 November 2024 1 Belgrade: Found dead in his hotel room. Zimin had previously criticised Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. He spent his final years exiled in ...
Prigozhin, 62, spearheaded a mutiny against Russia's top army brass on June 23-24, which President Vladimir Putin said could have tipped Russia into civil war. Others who have opposed Putin or his ...
Putin has offered his own hot take, obliquely referencing Prigozhin’s contributions to the war on Ukraine. “I knew Prigozhin for a very long time, since the early ’90s,” Putin said Thursday.
The bombings ceased when a similar bomb was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of Ryazan on September 23. Later in the evening Vladimir Putin praised the vigilance of the Ryzanians and ordered the air bombing of Grozny , which marked the beginning of the Second Chechen War . [ 1 ]
Watch as Vladmir Putin sent condolences to the family of Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after a plane crashed thought to be carrying the mercenary leader. Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a ...
On the day Yeltsin died, President Vladimir Putin declared the day of his funeral, held on 25 April 2007, [2] to be a day of national mourning. The ceremony was broadcast live on the main Russian state TV channels, and was attended by current and former heads of state, with a number of them expressing their condolences.