Is today Putin's "Michael Coroleone's 'settle all family business'" day???

[Dennis Donovan]

First this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212326725 It looks as if Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny has been poisoned


...then this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kara-Murza_Sr.
Vladimir Alexeyevich Kara-Murza (Russian: Влади́мир Алексе́евич Кара́-Мурза́; 24 October 1959 – 28 July 2019) was a Russian journalist and TV host.

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Public position
In 2004 he became one of the founders of the opposition Committee 2008. In 2018, he was one of the trustees of Grigory Yavlinsky in the presidential election.

He was one of the critics of the policy of the current authorities and President Vladimir Putin, and in his publications regularly criticized the programs of modern Russian television and their presenters.

WTF is going on in Russia???

[handmade34]

1. same ol'...

opposition is not to be tolerated (for long)

[moondust]

2. "If it happens a third time, that'll be it"

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a twice-poisoned Russian dissident, says: 'If it happens a third time, that'll be it'

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/russian-dissident-vladimir-kara-murza-poisoned-twice-democracy-campaigner-vladimir-putin-a7637421.html

This article appears to have some factual errors. It says he was 35 in 2017.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Thank you for the linked article!

It's his Dad (Vladimir Kara-Murza, Sr) who has died.