Thread by @AliAdair22

Felshtinsky wrote "Blowing Up Russia" with Alexander Litvinenko. Litvinenko also wrote a second book about the transformation of the Russian Security Services (FSB) into a criminal & terrorist organization called "Lubyanka Criminal Group."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubyanka_…

🕵️‍♂️At 43 years old, Litvinenko was poisoned by radioactive polonium-210 placed in his tea Nov 1, 2006. He was a former FSB agent, but became a critic of Putin after he moved to to the U.K. & became a citizen.

⚡️He didn't die until Nov 23, 2006.
bbc.com/news/uk-196472…

📹During that time period, he was interviewed by BBC Russian Service & said he was investigating the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya,

☕️Litvinenko's tea was with former FSB & KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi—the main suspect—& Dmitri Kovtun, a former KGB agent.

☕️Litvinenko's widow has said he blamed the Kremlin as he lay dying in hospital, saying Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for "everything that happened to him."

🇷🇺According to the article above, Russia denies any involvement.

⚰️Lugovoi is wanted by British police on suspicion of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. Russia refused to extradite him.

⚰️Kovtun was not charged with the murder although traces of polonium-210 were found in his car in Hamburg, Germany.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Ko…

⚡️Lugovoi & Kovtun were both added to the Magnitsky Act list by the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control on January 9, 2017—when Obama was still president.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Lu…

Anna Politkovskaya was a very successful writer & activist who wrote about the Second Chechen War & the apartment bombings. She refused to stop writing despite many attempts & threats to her life.

On October 7, 2006 she was shot in her apartment elevator.
hrw.org/news/2016/10/0…

💥Politkovskaya, an award-winning journalist was detained, interrogated and beaten in 2001 by Russian troops and subjected to a mock execution and rape.

🗞️This did not stop her.

☕️The Russian troops also poisoned her, but she recovered. Tea.

✈️In 2004, she was poisoned again on an Aeroflot flight. Again, tea.

🤮She got violently ill and lost consciousness, but recovered again.

💥David Satter also mentioned that Vladimir Pribylovsky suspected Putin of masterminding the Russian apartment bombings and parlaying that into his presidency.

⚰️He's dead.

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews…

⚰️Pribylovsky was found dead in his Moscow apartment on January 12, 2016 by his son. He co-authored "The Operation Successor" with with Yuri Felshtinsky (mentioned earlier), a book about Vladimir Putin's rise to power & KGB "corporate rule."

⁉️Pribylovsky was only 59 and the cause of death was unclear, but in 2007 Russian authorities had searched & confiscated computers & electronic files.

📕He wrote "Putin Must Go" & his last book was called "Around Putin," published after his death.

rferl.org/a/russia-priby…

Sergei Yushenkov was gunned down with a pistol equipped with a silencer in front of his apartment building in Moscow. Yushenkov opposed Putin's military attack of Chechnya & died hrs after announcing Liberal Russia was running in parliamentary elections.

washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

⚰️Other members of the Liberal Russia Party that were murdered include: Boris Boris Berezovsky (see above), Vladimir Golovlyov, Vladentin Tsvetkov, governor of Magadan, Valery Maryasov, deputy mayor of the city of Novosibirsk...

nytimes.com/2002/10/19/wor…

theguardian.com/world/2002/aug…

🚈...and a top official of Moscow's subway & rail system & member of the Liberal Russia Party. All murdered.

⚰️Coincidentally, the former mayor of the city of Novosibirsk, Igor Belyakov was also murdered four years prior to Maryasov. He was shot on the way to work.

🇷🇺Boris Berezovsky said Golovlyov was murdered because he joined Liberal Russia. "This [murder] is very simple: it is a message to the political classes of Russia that anyone who crosses the red flags of the existing powers will be killed."

💥Boris Berezovsky said in 2002 that he was just "weeks away" from presenting documentary evidence that the bombings were Putin's plot, evidence: "no less than the United States had that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the World Trade Center attack."

nytimes.com/2002/02/01/wor…

💥Same @nytimes interview, Boris Berezovsky: “I don’t have any facts today that Putin is involved personally. I have facts that the chief of the FSB is involved in that, & other people from the FSB are involved...

Boris Berezovsky (cont'd): "I don’t have the answer as to who gave the order—whether it was Putin, Patrushev or someone else.” Patrushev was Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) from 1999-2008, succeeding Putin & is now Secretary of the Security Council of 🇷🇺.

⚰️Berezovsky was granted political asylum in the UK where he lived until he died under suspicious circumstances. He was found hanged in 2013. Coroner: "open verdict."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Ber…

💸The Russian government took over Berezovsky's ownership of Channel One and claimed he had never been an owner of Sibneft, the largest oil producer in Russia, now known as Gazprom Neft.

💳His net worth was $3 billion at his peak.

Stanislav Markelov, 34, & Natalia Estemirova, 25, were both shot by a masked gunman in broad daylight in Central Moscow on January 19, 2009. Markelov, a human rights & social justice lawyer, had just announced he was continuing to fight to keep a Russian tank commander imprisoned

(suspicious deaths re: Chechnya cont'd) for shooting a young Chechen woman.

✍️Anastasia Baburova, a 25-year old journalist, was not the primary target, but worked as a freelancer for Novaya Gazeta, a publication highly critical of the government.

nytimes.com/2009/01/20/wor…

🖼️There is a photograph of young journalist Anastasia Baburova on her wikipedia page:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasia…

⚰️Natalia Estemirova, 50, was kidnapped (and managed to shout out that she was being kidnapped), taken to a remote place, shot and left her there with her purse by her side. Estemirova was an investigator for a human rights organization called Memorial.

nytimes.com/2009/07/18/wor…

Her crime? She also wrote kidnappings, torture and extrajudicial killings by Russian government troops in Chechnya. She worked with investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya & human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov, both of whom were also murdered.

✍️Like Politkovskaya & Markelov, Natalya Estemirova didn't and wouldn't quit.

⚰️Although there were 2 witnesses to her kidnapping on July 15, 2009, the murderers were never found or charged.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya_E…

🧵I broke the thread by mistake, so here is the link to the first part (the first part also has a link to this part).

https://twitter.com/AliAdair22/status/1027312430681083904