British police launched a murder investigation Friday after an autopsy revealed that a Russian exile who was critical of Vladimir Putin was strangled in his home.
Nikolay Glushkov, whose body was found Monday, died as a result of “compression to the neck,” London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
Glushkov’s death was a eerie echo of his friend Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian oligarch and an outspoken critic of Putin who was found in 2013 with a rope around his neck — and whose death was initially a suspected suicide. It was reclassified as unexplained.
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Man, it takes extreme pressure and time to strangle someone to death. That’s quite a message sent there.
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Several “messages” in fact. Putin’s critics seem to die with alarming regularity.
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Well, I guess we should take some comfort in the fact that tRumpsky simply FIRES people he doesn’t like …
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That’s not very comforting, Nan.
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So far.
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The deadly games politicians play to achieve their aims.
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Deadly, indeed.
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