How Putin Opponents Wind Up Dead

By NCD on Sat, 08/20/2016 - 4:01pm |

Elusive radioactive poisons, mineral poisons, plant poisons, blows to head, disappearances. The lucky flee:Among those fleeing Russia recently is Grigory Rodchenkov, a whistle-blower in Russia’s sports doping scandal.This is not without reason. In the case over state-sponsored doping, two other officials with knowledge of the scheme died unexpectedly as the outlines of the scandal began to emerge. Just this month, another whistle-blower, Yulia Stepanova, a runner in hiding with her husband in the United States, was forced to move amid fears that hackers had found her location. “If something happens to us,” she said, “then you should know that it is not an accident.”

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