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One of Russian President Vladimir Putins fiercest critics is in the hospital after suffering sudden organ failure, the BBC reports.
Opposition activist and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza is on life support in a medically induced coma, his wife said. She said the clinical picture was identical to that of an incident in 2015, when Kara-Murza almost died from sudden kidney failure.
At the time, tests found that the kidney failure had been caused by a poisonous substance, though it was unclear if Kara-Murza was intentionally poisoned or if it was an accident.
"The reason is unclear like last time. He's been active and healthy [recently]," his wife, Evgenia Kara-Murza, told the BBC.
Some are concerned that the Kremlin critic may have been deliberately poisoned.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, a coordinator for the pro-democracy group Open Russia, was a close associate of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered in 2015. At the time, Nemtsov was allegedly working on a report detailing the Kremlins role in supplying weapons to Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
http://thehill.com/policy/international/317585-prominent-putin-critic-hospitalized-with-sudden-organ-failure-report
blogslut
(38,015 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)blogslut
(38,015 posts)Especially since he keeps pissing off the covert types what do that sort of thing.
madokie
(51,076 posts)as long as he has something pootie wants. After that its anyones guess
jmg257
(11,996 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)underground. Nasty stuff, that.
Initech
(100,100 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)toddwv
(2,830 posts)Poison is favorite tactic of the KGB.