
Who’s pushing all these Russians out of windows?
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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Over two dozen Russian oligarchs, owners, bureaucrats and politicians have died in surprising circumstances all over the world. What is going on? What does it tell us about the state of play within Vladimir Putin's Russia? Bill Browder knows the Putin universe well, and it knows him. He had his $4.5 billion investment company Hermitage Capital Management swindled out from under him by the Russian tax authorities. The man he hired to investigate it, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian prison.Browder subsequently lobbied the US Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act which has led to the sanctioning of 30 Russians connected with the case. His book, Freezing Order
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