{"id":498,"date":"2017-03-23T19:08:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2017-03-23T19:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T00:08:49","slug":"putin-critic-assassinated-knew-he-was-a-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/498","title":{"rendered":"Putin Critic Assassinated, Knew He Was A Target…"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tragic event. On possibly <\/em>orchestrated by Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

A man Trump apparently admires. If one believes Trump’s prior praises of Putin.<\/p>\n

Excerpt from The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

KIEV \u2014<\/span> In the plush, crimson-decked lobby bar of Kiev\u2019s five-star Premier Palace Hotel, Denis Voronenkov, a Russian lawmaker who defected to Ukraine, knew he was in danger.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor our personal safety, we can\u2019t let them know where we are,\u201d he said Monday evening as he sat with his wife for an interview with The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Less than 72 hours later, he was dead, shot twice in the head in broad daylight outside the same lobby bar. It was a particularly brazen assassination that recalled the post-Soviet gangland violence of the 1990s. His wife, dressed in black, sobbed as she stooped down to identify Voronenkov\u2019s body, which lay beneath a black tarp in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, just hours later, called the attack an \u201cact of state terrorism by Russia.\u201d As of Thursday evening, police had not identified the assailant, who died in police custody after being shot by Voronenkov\u2019s bodyguard. Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, called the accusation a \u201cfabrication.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the weeks before his death, Voronenkov, a former member of Russia\u2019s pliant Communist Party, had told friends he was being targeted. Hackers had been trying to pry into his Twitter account and his wife\u2019s email. He had received threatening text messages, and the police had recently assigned him a bodyguard. There were rumors he was under surveillance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a totally amoral system, and in its anger it may go to extreme measures,\u201d he said as he sat next to his wife, Maria Maksakova, a fellow parliamentarian who defected with him. \u201cThere\u2019s been a demonization of us. It\u2019s hard to say what will happen. The system has lost its mind. They say we are traitors in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he could return only \u201cwhen Putin is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a time when the question of Russian influence dominates U.S. politics, Voronenkov\u2019s death will add further scrutiny to the extent, and potential lethality, of Russia\u2019s reach abroad. It remained unclear who might have wanted to killed Voronenkov \u2014 theories include Russian agents, Ukrainian nationalists or business interests \u2014 but the fact remains that he is just the latest Kremlin opponent to wind up dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More BENEATH THE FOLD<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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A tragic event. On possibly orchestrated by Vladimir Putin. A man Trump apparently admires. If one believes Trump’s prior praises of Putin. Excerpt from The Washington Post. 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