The pattern of Russian state killings

The pattern of killings the Strasbourg judges are being asked to consider includes poisonings with nerve agents, a radioactive isotope, an organophosphate and execution-style shootings

Moscow

(Siberia)

7

UK

6

Russia

2

5

Germany

3

Bulgaria

Montenegro

4

1

Qatar

1 Doha, Qatar

The car-bomb assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, former acting president of the breakaway Chechen Republic, in January 2003

 

2 Mayfair, London

The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. He drank tea laced with polonium-210 at a hotel where he met two Russian intelligence officers

 

3 Bulgaria

The attempted assassination of Emilian Gebrev, an arms dealer, in Bulgaria in 2015 through poisoning with pesticide-like organophosphates. GRU officers have allegedly been linked to the attack

4 Montenegro

The planned assassination of Milo Djukanović, the Montenegrin prime minister in 2016

 

5 Salisbury, Wiltshire

The attempted killing of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March 2018

 

6 Berlin, Germany

The assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian, who was shot dead in Berlin in August 2019

 

7 Siberia, Russia

The poisoning with nerve agent of the Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny in August 2020

7

Moscow

(Siberia)

Russia

UK

6

2

5

Germany

The pattern of killings the Strasbourg judges are being asked to consider includes poisonings with nerve agents, a radioactive isotope, an organophosphate and execution-style shootings

3

Bulgaria

Montenegro

4

1

Qatar

1 Doha, Qatar

The car-bomb assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, former acting president of the breakaway Chechen Republic, in January 2003

 

2 Mayfair, London

The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006. He drank tea laced with polonium-210 at a hotel where he met two Russian intelligence officers

 

3 Bulgaria

The attempted assassination of Emilian Gebrev, an arms dealer, in Bulgaria in 2015 through poisoning with pesticide-like organophosphates. GRU officers have allegedly been linked to the attack

4 Montenegro

The planned assassination of Milo Djukanović, the Montenegrin prime minister in 2016

 

5 Salisbury, Wiltshire

The attempted killing of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March 2018

 

6 Berlin, Germany

The assassination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian, who was shot dead in Berlin in August 2019

 

7 Siberia, Russia

The poisoning with nerve agent of the Russia opposition leader Alexei Navalny in August 2020