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> The NY Times has a story that he straight-up murdered a guy on American soil. This seemed extremely unlikely to me, so I Googled it. If you mean this story:
by hartpuff 11y ago
> The NY Times has a story that he straight-up murdered a guy on American soil.
This seemed extremely unlikely to me, so I Googled it. If you mean this story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/us/mikhail-lesins-strange-death-in-us-follows-a-fall-from-russias-elite.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/us/mikhail-lesins-strange-...
it doesn't say anything even remotely like Putin straight-up murdered a guy (a scumbag who has spent his life associating with and/or making enemies of other scumbags) on American soil.
In fact it doesn't even straight-up say he was murdered at all, by anyone:
The police [in the US] continue to treat Mr.
Lesin’s as a natural death
and:
Neither the F.B.I. nor the Justice Department
has taken a role in the investigation [...]
suggesting that it was being investigated as
an untimely death but not a federal crime.
- oneeyedpigeon 11y agoAlexander Litvinenko's death [1], on British soil, was definitely murder, though. According to the investigation, the Russian state was involved. Obviously, Putin didn't actually do the deed himself, but it seems more likely than not that he ordered it, or at least knew about the order. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvine...
- kafkaesq 11y agoRight -- No one disputes that Putin has been associated with all kinds of unseemly stuff. It's just that, at this juncture, there nothing beyond pure speculating tying him to Mikhail Lesin's untimely demise. In other words: "He's a bad guy you know -- he's capable of anything" isn't, in my book, sufficient reason to believe that he was actually involved somehow.