An S7 Airlines flight diverted this morning after Russia's opposition leader became ill due to a suspected poisoning at the airport. Alexey Navalny is Russia's 44-year-old opposition leader, and a big critic of Vladimir Putin and his government. This morning he was flying S7 Airlines from Tomsk to Moscow, on flight S72614. The flight was…
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Interesting. I thought their favorite method of criticism control was to have people accidentally fall from balconies.
If I was a reporter or politician in Russia I'd never go to a building that has a balcony for sure.
It must be another Putin job. If they did this in Salisbury, UK back in 2018, they should be more than capable to do this within Russia.
Anyway, please boycott Russia for now. Someone like Lucky could be easily targeted by Putin's security apparatus.
Listening to someone in agony ... who's now in a coma fighting for his life.
Gruesome and in bad taste, even for this site.
Will this remain up for the clicks if he passes?
People should consider this stuff when they travel and support the various governments like Russia, China, parts of the mideast. Your tourism money is partially keeping them in power.
Sadly this blogger continues to miss that by supporting dictators like in Turkey.
@rich, Although Erdogan has autocratic tendencies (like Trump) he is democratically elected and thus not a dictator.
@dot
I think, dear, you meant Super VC10 and Rich - not Omar.
But yes, I'm 100% liberal. And proudly so! (Which is why I left the United States 15 years ago for far more liberal Canada.)
Just fun to see how Americans think they are entitled to comment on other countries' politics...
Very disappointing to see this content on one of my favorite blogs. Posting to get clicks on what could be someone’s last cry is simply terrible. So sad.