A prominent Russian member of parliament turned exiled critic of Russia’s president was shot dead in the center of Ukraine’s capital of Kiev on Thursday. One day earlier, a lawyer associated with the family of a murdered Russian whistleblower was grievously injured after falling four stories from his Moscow apartment.The two cases have brought renewed questions about whether the Kremlin is violently targeting critics at home and abroad. In both incidents ― the murder of Denis Voronenkov in Kiev and Nikolai Gorokhov’s plummet to his death in Moscow ― Kremlin opponents were quick to claim that the Russian government played …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
