A plane crash which killed all 10 people on board is widely seen as an act of revenge after a short-lived rebellion that Vladimir Putin branded a 'stab in the back'.
Ms Estemirova, an award-winning human rights campaigner, was kidnapped near her home on 15 July 2009 in the Chechen capital, Grozny. Several hours later her body was found in an area of woodland, with gunshots wounds to the head and chest.
The 51-year-old had collected evidence of human rights abuses in Chechnya since the start of the second war there in 1999.Paul Klebnikov The American journalist, then Forbes Russia editor, was killed outside his office in a drive-by shooting in Moscow in 2004. He worked to expose corruption and human rights abuses in Russia, and had published a list of Russia's richest people.The former Russian politician, an outspoken critic of Mr Putin, was shot and killed in Kyiv in March 2017.fled to Ukraine in 2016 and was granted Ukrainian citizenship.
Ukraine's then president Petro Poroshenko described his killing as an"act of state terrorism" by Russia - an accusation quickly rejected by the Kremlin.Several senior executives in the oil and gas industry have met suspicious ends since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Mr Skripal, a former military intelligence officer, was convicted of spying for the UK before he was freed as part of a spy swap. He was found slumped on a bench in his home town of Salisbury in March 2018, alongside his daughter Yulia, after they were both
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