Russian critic Vladimir Kara-Murza suffers sudden organ failure

[highplainsdem]

Source: BBC

A prominent Russian opposition activist has been hospitalised with organ failure, two years after he almost died of suspected poisoning.

Journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who works for pro-democracy group Open Russia, fell ill at about 05:00 local time (02:00 GMT).

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On Wednesday he had posted a Facebook tribute to his friend Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader and former deputy prime minister of Russia who was shot dead in February 2015.

Writing in Russian, he shared a photo of roses on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge where Mr Nemtsov was killed, and the words: "We're here. We remember."

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38844292

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Found this via a tweet from David Frum:

Link to tweet

As Trump relaxes sanctions on Russian secret police ...

[DetlefK]

1. 10 bucks it was some exotic, barely known poison.

There was a case a few years over where a Putin-critic just dropped dead during jogging from a heart-attack. Except that he had been healthy and without heart-problems. The forensics found a strange substance in his stomach: Residues of a toxic plant that only grows in the Himalaya-mountains and whose poison so far has only been used by chinese intelligence.

[dhill926]

2. I'm sure this was just a coincidence....comrades...

[RegexReader]

21. da, pravda

but have to admit that when I first glanced at the headline, thought that it said,

suffers sudden orgasm failure

[xor]

3. Apparently not the first time he was poisoned

[bdamomma]

4. oh, little donnie

is playing in the big league now, an ex-KGB'er too.

are the sanctions being erased by this regime to give putin what he asked for.

[Cryptoad]

5. bet da farm ,,,,

we'll starting see that right here in USA

[MBS]

6. yup.

There will be more.

[Volaris]

7. Poison has a tendency to have that effect, yeah.

[alarimer]

8. more like "sudden" organ failure

It is just me, or do an awful lot of Putin's critics end up dead? More than you would expect from chance alone.

[Hekate]

9. Coinkydink, comrades.

[IronLionZion]

10. All of us have been critical of Trump

how long until Americans develop mysterious health problems leading to sudden death?



It's very brave of Vladimir Kara-Murza. Russians know that they will have consequences for speaking up and do it anyway.

[bigbrother05]

11. How convenient that ready access to health care is being curtailed

Wouldn't want root causes to be easily recognized/reported

[IronLionZion]

12. That's really dark

[Sunlei]

13. like the lead poisoned people? and if not for one hospital person noticing many poisoned kids,

they'd still be drinking that water.

[NBachers]

14. Time to create a lineup of food tasters in Chief, Donnie.

[dchill]

15. I'm sure that's already been taken care of.

EVERYBODY's qualified for that job.

[LudwigPastorius]

18. I don't think Putin needs to worry.

He's got video of prostitutes pissing on the president.

[Berlin Expat]

16. Sounds like

one of those unfortunate cases of Putinitis. Quite unpleasant, I've been led to believe and seems to have with some regularity in Russia.

[LudwigPastorius]

17. I wonder if Vlad is going to share his secret recipe with the Donald.

Trump would surely love some surreptitious way to deal with all his critics.

[BadgerMom]

19. And this could use further elucidation

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/new-york/manhattan/man-63-falls-death-russian-consulate-nyc-article-1.2864098?client=safari

The date, the location and the unknown cause of death are suspicious to me in this day.

[3catwoman3]

20. Move along, folks, move along.

Nothing to see here. Nothing at all.

Yeah, right.