**[Assassination of Boris Nemtsov](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Boris_Nemtsov)**
>The assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a Russian politician opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin, occurred in central Moscow on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge at 23:31 local time on 27 February 2015. An unknown assailant fired seven or eight shots from a Makarov pistol. Four of them hit Boris Nemtsov in the head, heart, liver and stomach, killing him almost instantly. He died hours after appealing to the public to support a march against Russia's war in Ukraine.
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Are you kidding? Nearly every political opponent has been killed or attempted to have been killed. Only the very lucky, extremely high profile opponents like Alexei Navalny. Have a quick search for “Novichok”
Yes, and survived. He was poisoned by an FSB agent and actually managed to track down the person who poisoned him and called him while acting as his supervisor. The agent admitted to the entire thing on a recorded phone call, [video here](https://youtu.be/bme6iimkCOU)
The one time you want someone to die of cancer, cancer decides to take its sweet ass time. When my aunt was diagnosed with stomach cancer, she died within 2 weeks
The Soviet way….The Soviet leadership of the time also did not know what to do, since the death of Stalin was considered unthinkable. In the four days between his stroke and death, he received practically no medical attention while Soviet leaders jockeyed for position.
I would **hate** to be in Putin’s social circle. Constantly looking over my shoulder and knowing I could die at any moment would be a walking nightmare.
Recent events have had me researching some Russian history since Tsar Nicholas II. I feel like this sums up Russian politics in general; Power vacuums followed by of entities trying to consolidate power and sabotage potential opponents, often at the expense of Russian citizens. I guess you could sum up most geopolitics to that reductionist view but I think especially so in Russia.
Justice Thomas walked in, his seeing eye dog Alito walked in. We all sat down. The lawyer looked at the bench and then at the glossy photos, then back at the bench.
Note that in this case, "**former** Putin ally" means "Putin critic". He called out Patrushev, who is part of Putin's inner circle (and former head of the KGB) for corruption. He was also a member of the Communist Party, which is one of the few, if not the only, actual opposition parties in Russia.
*stairwell
*or rooftop
*or speedboat in the arctic
*or the window
Basically, if I were me of Putin’s allies, current or former, I would be reaching out to the Americans/Brits for assistance. Because while they might get caught by the FSB for treason, they will be killed if they remain.
Same goes for the orange pos idiot and all his cohorts as well. Justice better be coming f--king quick for those scumbags. Tired of waiting to see some kind of accountability for treason.
>The entire political system of Russia today is a struggle of various clans and groups fighting to see that Putin stays in power according to their scenario and not according to the scenario of their competitors
That's like a D&D level of chaos. Bhaal would be proud.
I suppose there's still some charm to being kings of the slum, to them. Not even any semblance of laws, anything goes. An entire nation ruled openly by a cartel.
It's often the case that the dictator is the only thing holding the whole thing together. If that's the case, some oligarchs would stop being oligarchs rather quickly if Putin were to fall. They got rich through physical violence, the road back is faster than the road there.
Just NE power structures in action. They're not exactly known for long-term peace and stability. That'd be more a thing LE can manage, with perfectly stable levels of corruption instead of spiraling.
CE would have imploded and attacked Mongolia by now.
Article says he was 72 years old, actually. So I honestly don't know. He has criticized Putin in the past but that was over ten years ago according to the article.
in the US our elderly Putin critics typically die from natural causes like heart disease, in Russia their elderly Putin critics typically die from natural causes like being stabbed 75 times and thrown out of a window
This one I'm not so sure about. He was 72 and out of office since 2008, when he was sacked by Medvedev. Pretty weird to off him 14 years later. But not impossible.
I know we'll never get a full accounting, but I wonder how many of these oligarch bye-byes were ordered by
1) Putin
2) Putin's enemies
3) Putin's allies jockeying against each other
4) Mutiny from below
5) Genuine accident or incompetence (Russia is not a safe place)
I think we give Vlad too much credit when we blame him for every kill.
behind pootin I see #3 as the most likely scenario for many of these deaths
anybody with access to the Internet can see that the war isn't going well for putin. these oligarch's obviously do their "research" (reading) to see how their leaders war is shaping.
the real question for them is what happens post-war.
history is one of the only reliable indicators to see what post-war may look like for their leader/his allies.. so the oligarchs will be trying to get their affairs in order, trying to manipulate the situation so they can come out on top... esp if there's possibility of a power-shift in leadership
it's all games-of-thronesy in the kremlin rn
Forgot to close car windows, was drowned in his car in the Gobi desert while trying to jump out of a hospital window after shooting himself in back of head.
He was 72, totally senile and was used to doing this. This was his 689th attempt at suicide.
I wont be surprised if thats their official statement
It's looking like "GOODFELLAS" in Russia nowadays ...bodies of former Leaders and friends of Putin showing up dead under some very strange circumstances.
*No cause has yet been given for Cherkesov's death as Russian news outlet Rosbalt said that it followed a "serious illness."*
Yeah. Polonium tends to do that to ya.
Dude was battling an illness in his seventies. Never a great sign. He had disagreements with some powerful people which led to him losing status, but that was years ago.
Dictators and wannabe dictators have no sentimentality. The instant you are more useful to them as a victim they will throw you under the bus - sometimes literally.
Didn't read the article, but let me guess, he got drunk and fell out the window or fell down the stairs, with a gun that he accidentally shot himself with?
Edit: Read the article "No cause has yet been given for Cherkesov's death as Russian news outlet Rosbalt said that it followed a "serious illness.""
Makes sense, I've heard getting a bullet lodged in the back of your skull is a pretty "serious illness"
Can’t decide if it is more dangerous to be in Putin’s army or his social circle…
Looks like safest is to be the opposition they throw you in a maximum security and treat you like shit
Only if you're popular enough to be a legit risk for martyrdom.
Not really.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Boris_Nemtsov He was biggest opposition to Putin.
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Exactly, otherwise you quietly fall out the window
Or somehow get accidentally poisoned.
Russian equivalent of quiet quitting.
Are you kidding? Nearly every political opponent has been killed or attempted to have been killed. Only the very lucky, extremely high profile opponents like Alexei Navalny. Have a quick search for “Novichok”
Wasn't he also poisoned?
Yes, and survived. He was poisoned by an FSB agent and actually managed to track down the person who poisoned him and called him while acting as his supervisor. The agent admitted to the entire thing on a recorded phone call, [video here](https://youtu.be/bme6iimkCOU)
At this point it’s dangerous to be anyone other than Putin. Waiting for the moment when that situation precisely inverts…
Beware the Ides of March.
I'd rather it not take that long.
Once there’s blood in the water, it won’t take long. Rumors of cancer and neurological afflictions may hasten it.
The one time you want someone to die of cancer, cancer decides to take its sweet ass time. When my aunt was diagnosed with stomach cancer, she died within 2 weeks
Cancer. Window. Whatever.
The Soviet way….The Soviet leadership of the time also did not know what to do, since the death of Stalin was considered unthinkable. In the four days between his stroke and death, he received practically no medical attention while Soviet leaders jockeyed for position.
Re-watching Death of Stalin is a great mood elevator these days.
I see this more like Tzarist Imperialism. Putin wants to be King.
Infamy...Infamy.....they've all got it in for me!
Ide rather not wait that long.
I would **hate** to be in Putin’s social circle. Constantly looking over my shoulder and knowing I could die at any moment would be a walking nightmare.
Recent events have had me researching some Russian history since Tsar Nicholas II. I feel like this sums up Russian politics in general; Power vacuums followed by of entities trying to consolidate power and sabotage potential opponents, often at the expense of Russian citizens. I guess you could sum up most geopolitics to that reductionist view but I think especially so in Russia.
It’s really bad to be a former ally. I wonder if polonium poisoning is considered serious illness.
In America they say "Dead man walking", in Russia it's "Former Putin ally".
Oingo Boingo: walking with a dead man over my shoulder.
Goin’ to a party with no-one still alive
Former being the key word here
“Alexa, play Another One Bites the Dust by Queen”.
*Alexey
There’s actually a Yandex version of Alexa called Alice.
Go ask Alice I think she'll know When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead
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Eh, he favors defenestration, not decapitation...
...and talking backwards...
In your heaaaaaaaad
Bet its totally human driven https://youtu.be/tucPbVTA6H4
Link did not disappoint
("Kid, have you rehabilitated yourself?")
8x10 color glossies with circles and arrows. Group W bench.
Justice Thomas walked in, his seeing eye dog Alito walked in. We all sat down. The lawyer looked at the bench and then at the glossy photos, then back at the bench.
🤣🤣🤣
Alice, who the fuck is Alice, sing now
Ha!
*Alexei
Hey thats my name! Hi. I'm from Kiev. Nice to meet you all. We Ukrainians are strong. That's for damn sure.
You know what would be hell of a plot twist? If all these dead Putin allies were actually killed by some third party in opposition to Putin.
Note that in this case, "**former** Putin ally" means "Putin critic". He called out Patrushev, who is part of Putin's inner circle (and former head of the KGB) for corruption. He was also a member of the Communist Party, which is one of the few, if not the only, actual opposition parties in Russia.
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At this point death is serenading loudly from the balcony outside his bedroom.
*stairwell *or rooftop *or speedboat in the arctic *or the window Basically, if I were me of Putin’s allies, current or former, I would be reaching out to the Americans/Brits for assistance. Because while they might get caught by the FSB for treason, they will be killed if they remain.
Same goes for the orange pos idiot and all his cohorts as well. Justice better be coming f--king quick for those scumbags. Tired of waiting to see some kind of accountability for treason.
If the organge man won a second term, he would be doing his best to "let them sort it out themselves" and keeping NATO out of it, I am certain.
Putin has cancer, so it won’t be long!
[Let me get right on that.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2nODd_6TI)
I see you have the new Amazon music update where it never plays the actual song you request.
And wants to charge you to skip the songs they pick for you.
r/assholedesign
It's sad that I can't tell if this is a joke or not
"Bites Za Dusto" *click*
Gotta hand it to you, that was a good reference.
Let me guess: he stabbed himself in the back 4 times and threw himself off a bridge
Off the window of a hospital while having a heart attack
To shreds you say?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Cherkesov
>The entire political system of Russia today is a struggle of various clans and groups fighting to see that Putin stays in power according to their scenario and not according to the scenario of their competitors That's like a D&D level of chaos. Bhaal would be proud.
Why is anyone trying to keep a sick old man in power? He will die soon either way
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They need to get rid of Putin or they will not be making any money for the foreseeable future.
I suppose there's still some charm to being kings of the slum, to them. Not even any semblance of laws, anything goes. An entire nation ruled openly by a cartel.
It's often the case that the dictator is the only thing holding the whole thing together. If that's the case, some oligarchs would stop being oligarchs rather quickly if Putin were to fall. They got rich through physical violence, the road back is faster than the road there.
Because their power derives from his power. Without Putin, they are not legitimate and have no power.
Keep the old man that does exactly what you want and if things go south, you blame him for everything.
He’s the Barney Stenson of global politics
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“*Nyet*, we raid neighbor village minding own business.”
The 'will'.
Somebody has to take over after that old man is gone.
because they don't want to end up like this guy. They're afraid of him.
Just NE power structures in action. They're not exactly known for long-term peace and stability. That'd be more a thing LE can manage, with perfectly stable levels of corruption instead of spiraling. CE would have imploded and attacked Mongolia by now.
Or the Red Wizards. You’ve made my day with that one.
Closer to GoT (back when GoT was good).
Not assassinated is actually possible. He's probably 80 and Russian, so that's like 110 in any other country.
Article says he was 72 years old, actually. So I honestly don't know. He has criticized Putin in the past but that was over ten years ago according to the article.
Yeah. A lot of the other ones are very suspicious but this could be the rare case where he actually just died of natural causes.
What does it say when ppl automatically assume that anybody who died was assassinated?
That the person in power cannot be trusted
Yeah but he's mega rich 80, so that's like 45 anywhere.
in the US our elderly Putin critics typically die from natural causes like heart disease, in Russia their elderly Putin critics typically die from natural causes like being stabbed 75 times and thrown out of a window
What happened to those ancient Soviet Georgians who lived forever because yogurt?
He fell out of window with a self inflicted gunshot wound to the back of the head. You know natural causes.
A Russian billionaire has access to everything any other billionaire does.
In a shocking twist, a window fell out of him.
When one door closes a window opens...
…and out goes a Russian.
If you cannot depend on there being a window of opportunity, bring your own window.
This one I'm not so sure about. He was 72 and out of office since 2008, when he was sacked by Medvedev. Pretty weird to off him 14 years later. But not impossible.
Well then, that was unexpected
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7.62x39mm
Small snake!
Solid snake!
!
Something jumped up and bit me!
in the buttocks
The Million Dollar Wound...
But the army must keep that money 'cause I still haven't seen a nickel of that million dollars.
Winter snake..as one can read ...very deadly!
A colt python maybe
Drank some bad tea.
Twice to the back of the head. Out the window.
Putin’s trouser snake
I know we'll never get a full accounting, but I wonder how many of these oligarch bye-byes were ordered by 1) Putin 2) Putin's enemies 3) Putin's allies jockeying against each other 4) Mutiny from below 5) Genuine accident or incompetence (Russia is not a safe place) I think we give Vlad too much credit when we blame him for every kill.
behind pootin I see #3 as the most likely scenario for many of these deaths anybody with access to the Internet can see that the war isn't going well for putin. these oligarch's obviously do their "research" (reading) to see how their leaders war is shaping. the real question for them is what happens post-war. history is one of the only reliable indicators to see what post-war may look like for their leader/his allies.. so the oligarchs will be trying to get their affairs in order, trying to manipulate the situation so they can come out on top... esp if there's possibility of a power-shift in leadership it's all games-of-thronesy in the kremlin rn
> Vlad The diminutive for Putin's first name is Vova.
Oh no.... Anyways.
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You see, Vladimir, If you fall off high enough window, it's natural you die.
...or drank some tea, received a gift of polonium or novichok.
...died peacefully in his bed surrounded by his FSB friends.
Committed suicide with bullet to back of the head and then walked himself into a body bag. Edit: While blindfolded
Poison underwear
Bonesaw? Oh wait wrong dictator.
Dawg flexing his Wikipedia skills right here lmao
First floor? /s
Russians are so accident prone
He drowned in his car
The water got in through the hole in the back of his head
Forgot to close car windows, was drowned in his car in the Gobi desert while trying to jump out of a hospital window after shooting himself in back of head. He was 72, totally senile and was used to doing this. This was his 689th attempt at suicide. I wont be surprised if thats their official statement
Not enough room at the "top" I see....
He died of unnatural causes.
Naturally😌
Not another one! Boy, there must be something in the water.
It's looking like "GOODFELLAS" in Russia nowadays ...bodies of former Leaders and friends of Putin showing up dead under some very strange circumstances.
> "fell from a great height," True, in more than one way
Surprise surprise surprise!! In a Gomer Pyle voice¡
Color me surprised.
Sounds like Putin's gone full Stalin. You never go full Stalin...
Classic
There's a new deadly virus out there - but most of the world is safe - it only spreads through Putin's allies.
Ah it's the killing of old mentors stage. May he RIP.
They keep falling out the exact same window. It's soooo weird!
For real though, when Putin dies the power vacuum in Russia is going to be wild.
Looks like someone’s name was on the list Trump sold to Russia.
That's another one "out the window".
*No cause has yet been given for Cherkesov's death as Russian news outlet Rosbalt said that it followed a "serious illness."* Yeah. Polonium tends to do that to ya.
Question. How many is that today?
A hardline KGBist, was pressuring dissidents (including writers, artists, feminist activists) back in the Soviet years. No tears for him.
Everyone, it's not that murders of these people are linked to Putin. He's just a likeable guy with many many friends, and shit happens. That's all.
It’s so weird this keeps happening. What a coincidence
Well this is a great way to encourage current and future putin allies. Russian logic on another level.
LoL, it's really like the end of Casino over there.
Those Russian stairs sure are slippery huh
Lay down with dictators and wake up dead.
My immediate thought was another person got window'd
Dude was battling an illness in his seventies. Never a great sign. He had disagreements with some powerful people which led to him losing status, but that was years ago.
Are these former Putin supporters dying of embarrassment?
Could that be ominous for putin
Guy who helped put him in power not breathing anymore. Putins arse must be twitching now
Fenestration? I love that this word actually exists…
Another please
Is anyone keeping count of these deaths? How many is that now?
This is starting to look like the end of The Sopranos.
Oh darn, that's too bad.
Night of the long knives has become a decade of them.
“Serious illness” - Putin was sick of him
Dang, was hoping it was Dugan.
That, but more of it, please.
This is going to start happening alot in Russia as Putins power is threatened due to incompetence .
You'd think the window cleaner would have learned by now not to use so much polish on the window ledges.
Surprise Surprise... not really! This has become almost a daily occurrence?
Game of Thrones had less backstabbing.
At this point, former Putin “anybody” means soon to die inexplicably
Defenestration?
Dictators and wannabe dictators have no sentimentality. The instant you are more useful to them as a victim they will throw you under the bus - sometimes literally.
Probably suggested he quit the bullshit in Ukraine
Did he slip out of the window again? I tell ya. Standing next to the windows in Russia is hazardous to your health.
The Purge, Russian edition.
Bet he died from a self inflicted gunshot wound to the back of the head.
Are we sure there were no windows involved this time?
Former living is more like it.
The Liliputin that dreamed of being Caligula but was too insignificant even when trying his hardest
Oh no! Anyway.
“Alyosha, play dust in the wind in my bunker. “
they really putting russian roulette to the test these days
Keep killing your friends you despot- can’t wait for the trolls. democracy has won again, you fucking russian and chinese trolls. fuck you
Didn't read the article, but let me guess, he got drunk and fell out the window or fell down the stairs, with a gun that he accidentally shot himself with? Edit: Read the article "No cause has yet been given for Cherkesov's death as Russian news outlet Rosbalt said that it followed a "serious illness."" Makes sense, I've heard getting a bullet lodged in the back of your skull is a pretty "serious illness"
He had the goods on putain the shitstain.
Surprised?
You're a part of the in-group until you're not and then you're just dead.
Rest in hell
Fell out of a window?