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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:22 AM Mar 2017

Anti-Putin Exile Gunned Down in Ukraine -- Witness against Manafort's boss.

Denis Vornonenko was once part of the Moscow elite. Then he fled Russia and started to speak out against Russian security services. Now he’s dead.
Anna Nemtsova 03.23.17 7:10 AM ET

MOSCOW — Ukraine has been shaken by a new Russia-related assassination. A former member of the Russian parliament, Denis Voronenkov, was shot dead in the heart of Kiev, on the corner of Shevchenko and Pushkin streets.

Voronenkov, a colonel in the Russian military, escaped to Ukraine together with his wife, Maria Maksakova, who is also a former State Duma member. A few weeks ago, Voronenkov told The Daily Beast about his plans to testify at the trial for treason, in absentia, of former Ukraine President Victor Yanukovych, who fled to exile in 2014. ....

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Anti-Putin Exile Gunned Down in Ukraine -- Witness against Manafort's boss. (Original Post) L. Coyote Mar 2017 OP
Dropping like flies. GOP supports this, they are complicit. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1
Witness thrown out of a fourth floor window, in critical condition last i heard. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #4
Reminds me of this Yavin4 Mar 2017 #2
Manafort's name needs to be kept on the top of the pile. KittyWampus Mar 2017 #3
+1! 2naSalit Mar 2017 #5

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
1. Dropping like flies. GOP supports this, they are complicit.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:24 AM
Mar 2017

Assume we all now know about the guy thrown out of his building who was going to testify against these folks.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
4. Witness thrown out of a fourth floor window, in critical condition last i heard.
Thu Mar 23, 2017, 11:37 AM
Mar 2017

The "billionaire mafia" may become part of our political lexicon very quickly.

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