meet Ivan Osipov, Dr. Alexey Alexandrov of FSB

 1-27-21  Timur Kuashev, Ruslan Magomedragimov and Nikita Isayev

Bellingcat, The Insider and Der Spiegel said they have linked the FSB unit to the killings of journalist-activist

Timur Kuashev, activist Ruslan Magomedragimov and politician Nikita Isayev.  “Travel coincidences make it impossible to doubt the involvement of this group of poisoners,” The Insider wrote.  FSB chemical-weapons agent Konstantin Kudryavtsev, who was named in the Navalny investigation and later allegedly confessed to the poisoning in a trick phone call with Navalny himself, arrived in Kuashev’s home city of Nalchik on July 13, 2014, The Insider reported.  In the coming days, fellow FSB unit members Ivan Osipov, Denis Machikin and Roman Matyushin flew to nearby airports.  All three agents returned to Moscow on July 31 and Aug. 1, the day Kushaev’s body was found, The Insider reported.     https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/27/navalnys-alleged-fsb-poisoners-linked-to-deaths-of-journalists-activists-investigation-a72757

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1-27-21  Crucially, a follow-up coroner’s report identified traces of an injection in Kuashev’s left armpit area that had been applied six to 10 hours before the body was found.  Thanks to lobbying by his father--a retired senior criminal investigator--a murder investigation was opened into Kuashev’s death….Kuashev had relentlessly covered local politics in Kabardino-Balkaria, appearing to have irritated both local law enforcement and the FSB.  Living in an autonomous republic which at times saw a spillover of violence from Chechnya, he had written articles on torture and persecution by security services for the popular regional news sites Caucasian Knot, Kavpolit and the magazine Dosh.  He had also organized rallies against torture by police and was collaborating with national and local human rights organizations and was an active member of the Russian opposition party Yabloko….

  Timur Kuashev had also been openly critical of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, including the 2014 annexation of Crimea.  He had been outspoken in his criticism of the Kremlin and of Russian president Vladimir Putin, stating that the country needed a “a new revolution for change of government”.  Just a few hours before he was killed, he posted a comment on Facebook in which he wrote that Putin’s enemies were dying “as if on schedule”. …

FSB agents: Medical expert Ivan Osipov (left) and field commander Alexey Alexandrov (right)

  Osipov was not alone in or near Nalchik on the eve of and at the time of Kuashev’s death.  In addition to Kudryavtsev, at least three other FSB operatives had arrived in the region in the days prior.  A critical second presence was that of Dr. Alexey Alexandrov, the other member of the FSB poison squad whose phone records placed him near Alexey Navalny’s hotel in the hours before he fell into a coma in Tomsk.  https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2021/01/27/navalny-poison-squad-implicated-in-murders-of-three-russian-activists/

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