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All the Kremlin’s Victims

The poisoning of Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza is one of nearly 40 suspicious attacks linked to Vladimir Putin and his cronies.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow, on December 23.
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Updated | The list of victims laid at the feet of Vladimir Putin has gotten so long now that you need a chart to keep track of them. Too bad Bill O’Reilly didn’t have one in hand when Donald Trump brushed off the Fox News host’s remark that Putin and his cronies are “killers.”

But a chart is just what the Association of Former Intelligence Officers produced in a recent edition of its quarterly bulletin, . To be sure, AFIO, which represents 4,500 former CIA, FBI and military intelligence veterans, is steeped in Cold War hatred for the Kremlin, but even is off by half, the list of Moscow’s suspected victims would be grimly impressive: There are over 30 names on the list.

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