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Captain Maksim Kuzminov, 28, was found riddled with bullets in an underground car park in Villajoyosa near Alicante on February 13 after deserting Russia last year
It doesn't take a keen Kremlin watcher to see Alexei Navalny's death in Russia as the latest in a systemic string of attempts to eradicate opponents of Putin over the years.
Captain Maksim Kuzminov, 28, was found riddled with bullets in an underground car park earlier this month following what is feared to have been a Kremlin-orchestrated hit.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in jail on Feb. 16 follows a long list of murders and suspicious deaths of opponents of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Since he came to power in 1999, more than 20 Putin critics have been killed or died mysteriously. Another long litany is that of killed enemies of Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, a major Putin ally.
A prominent critic of Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov, opposition blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has been killed in Sweden.