Accusations that another Kremlin critic ordered attack on Leonid Volkov throws scattered opposition into further disarrayWhen Leonid Volkov, a longtime partner of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was brutally attacked with a hammer outside his home in Lithuania in March, it initially seemed yet another case of the Kremlin hunting down its enemies abroad.The assailant smashed open Volkov’s car window and struck him repeatedly with a hammer, breaking his left arm and damaging his left leg. Western officials and opposition figures assumed the attack, which took place a few weeks after Navalny’s mysterious death in prison, had been orchestrated by the Kremlin. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/03/russia-exiled-opposition-hammer-attack-navalny-ally
Author : Pjotr Sauer and Shaun Walker in Warsaw
Publish date : 2024-10-03 11:59:44
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