FBI accused of withholding test results that may shed light on attempts to kill critic of Putin

8-30-20 FBI accused of withholding test results that may shed light on attempts to kill at least one critic of Putin After

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition activist, was poisoned in Moscow for the second time in two years, his wife, Evgenia, got on a plane to America bearing a vial of his blood. Speed was vital: she was told that the more time elapsed, the harder it would be to identify the mysterious toxin. FBI agents met her at Dulles airport near Washington and took the sample for testing. An early result was promised. Three-and-a-half years later the FBI is still silent and stands accused of withholding information that could help to hold the Kremlin to account--not just for trying to kill Kara-Murza but for poisoning Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s chief political opponent. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stonewalling-fbi-fuels-suspicion-of-poison-pact-with-kremlin-h99pp60jg3-23-2017 ................................................................................... Denis Voronenkov shot dead in Kiev in broad daylight--he increasingly criticized Putin…. In Feb. 2015, just hours after urging the public to join a march against Russia's military involvement in Ukraine, 

Nemtsov was shot four times in the back by an unknown assailant within view of the Kremlin. Putin took "personal control" of the investigation into Nemtsov’s murder, but the killer remains at large….

Boris Berezovsky, 2013—his falling out with Putin led to his self-exile in the United Kingdom, where he vowed to bring down the president. He also accused the Kremlin of orchestrating the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, a former intelligence officer and whistleblower poisoned to death in 2009. Berezovsky was found dead inside a locked bathroom at his home in the United Kingdom, a noose around his neck, in what was at first deemed a suicide. However the coroner’s office could not determine the cause of death…. Markelov, 2009—a human rights lawyer known for representing Chechen civilians in human rights cases again the Russian military. He also represented journalists who found themselves in legal trouble after writing articles critical of Putin, including Novaya Gazeta reporter Anna Politkovskaya, who was slain in 2006. Markelov was shot by a masked gunman near the Kremlin.  Baburova, also a journalist from Novaya Gazeta, was fatally shot as she tried to help him; 2 Neo-Nazis were convicted of the deaths…. Lawyer Sergei Magnitsky died in police custody in November 2009 after allegedly being brutally beaten, then denied medical care. He had been working for British-American businessman William Browder to investigate a massive tax fraud case…. Natalya Estemirova was a journalist who investigated abductions and murders that had become commonplace in Chechnya. Estemirova was kidnapped in 2009 outside her home, shot several times — including a point-blank shot in the head--and dumped in the nearby woods. Nobody has been convicted of her murder…. In 2003

Sergei Yushenkov had just registered his Liberal Russia movement as a political party when he was gunned down outside his home in Moscow.  Yushenkov was gathering evidence he believed proved that the Putin government was behind one of the apartment bombings in 1999…. As a journalist and author who wrote about crime and corruption in the former Soviet Union when it was still very difficult to do so, Yuri Shchekochikhin

was investigating the 1999 apartment bombings for Novaya Gazeta when he contracted a mysterious illness in July 2003. He died suddenly, a few days before he was supposed to depart for the United States. His medical documents were deemed classified by Russian authorities. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/ …………………….......................... 9-17-20 Polish prosecutors in 2017 accused the air traffic controllers of “deliberately provoking” the 4-10-10 crash where 96 Polish officials including Kaczynski died at Russia’s Smolensk airport. 9-17-2Prosecutor’s office spokeswoman Ewa Bialik told reporters that Poland had applied for a “temporary detainment order” of the three Russian flight controllers, according to the broadcaster Poland In, which cited the Polish Press Agency. “This is the first step to issuing an international arrest warrant,” the outlet said. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2020/09/17/poland-seeks-russian-air-traffic-controllers-arrest-over-fatal-2010-presidential-crash-a71468 …………………………………………………………….....................… 9-14-20 Berlin — Laboratories in France and Sweden have confirmed the findings of a German military lab that said there was no doubt Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-navalny-condition-improves-off-ventilator-germany-says-france-sweden-labs-confirm-novichok-russia/ …………………………………………………..