The list is long, other leaders critical of Putin have also died

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Moscow, 17 February 2024, Saturday

After news of the death of Alexei Navalny, a staunch critic of Russian President Putin and opposition leader, has spread across the world.

After Navalny's death, questions are again being raised against Putin's working style. Because the death list of those who raised their voice against Putin is very long.

Prior to Navalny's death, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who had a private army in Russia, died in a mysterious plane crash. Prigozhin, once considered Putin's special, tried to rebel against Putin and had to leave the world in his days of reckoning.

Another critic of Putin, Pavel Antov, died suspiciously in a hotel in the Indian state of Orissa. He fell from the third floor of the hotel. Two days before his death, a member of Antov's party, Vladimir Budanov, also died under suspicious circumstances in the same hotel. However, it was claimed that the police did not find anything suspicious in the investigation.

Ravil Magnov, chairman of the oil company Lukoil, who criticized Russia's invasion of Ukraine, died in 2022 after falling from a hospital window. He was said to have committed suicide. However, even today there are questions about the death of Magnov.

Big Russian businessman Dan Rapoport left Russia after differences with Putin. On social media, he often posted in support of Ukraine. His body was found in a flat in Washington in August 2022. The police denied that it was a case of murder.

Denis Nikolaych Vorankov, a former Member of Parliament of Russia, lost the parliamentary elections in 2016 and left Russia for Ukraine. Denis sat in Ukraine and criticized Putin and his foreign policy. In March 2017, he was shot dead by an assailant while he was coming out of a hotel. The assailant was also killed in the retaliatory fire by Dennis' bodyguard.

In 2015, Putin's opponent Boris Nemtsov was shot dead. Boris was Russia's Deputy Prime Minister in the 1990s and was considered a strong contender for the presidency of Russia. However, Boris Nemtsov was marginalized after Putin became president in 2000. Boris later started holding protests against Putin. He condemned Russia's invasion of Crimea in 2014.

He was killed in the same year. The five assailants arrested in this case are in jail but it is still not clear who ordered them to kill Boris.