17 Feb 2015
Anatoly A. Sobchak, a former mayor of St. Petersburg and a mentor to Putin, died of a heart attack 15 years ago while on a trip to Kaliningrad.
businessinsider.com/the-mysterious…
Anatoly A. Sobchak, a former mayor of St. Petersburg and a mentor to Putin, died of a heart attack 15 years ago while on a trip to Kaliningrad.
businessinsider.com/the-mysterious…
He talked too much, just as Putin was dictating his new official life story to the 3 journalists, Sobchak was reminiscing, in response to questions asked by other journalists, & recounting key episodes of Putin’s career in ways that contradicted the story told by his old protégé.
Sobchak's two bodyguard-assistants, both physically fit young men, had had to be treated for mild symptoms of poisoning following Sobchak's death. This was a hallmark of contract killings by poisoning: many a bodyguard had fallen similarly ill when their bosses were killed
2007
Vaksberg published a history of political poisonings in USSR & Russia. It advanced the theory Sobchak was killed by a poison placed on the bulb of the bedside lamp, so that the substance was heated and vaporized when the lamp was turned on. A technique developed in the USSR
Vaksberg published a history of political poisonings in USSR & Russia. It advanced the theory Sobchak was killed by a poison placed on the bulb of the bedside lamp, so that the substance was heated and vaporized when the lamp was turned on. A technique developed in the USSR
A few months after the book was published, Vaksberg's car was blown up in his Moscow garage; Vaksberg was not in it.
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