On Putin's kill list and hunted down by his murderous thugs

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Tuesday 25 March 2025 10:39 GMT

When you imagine receiving the news that you’re on the kill list of one of the world’s cruellest dictators, you perhaps don’t imagine it while holding a glass of champagne. But, in January 2023, that’s exactly – or, almost exactly – what happened to Christo Grozev, an internationally renowned investigative journalist whom I had been filming for a documentary about his work for months, and who told me at a glitzy awards ceremony in New York that Vladimir Putin wanted him dead ...

By the time Grozev became one of Putin’s most wanted, I’d been following him around with a camera for more than a year. We were working on a documentary – Kill List: Hunted by Putin’s Spies – which started out as a story about Bellingcat.

They were unparalleled in their work using open source investigation to identify, track and expose assassins and spies working for the dictator across Europe. Over the three years we were filming, the doc went far beyond that brief. Rather than explaining the poison programme itself, the narrative changed. What we answered was what you risk when you speak out against the regime – the threats, the fear and the very human cost of putting yourself on the line to expose the truth ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-russian-critics-navalny-sergei-skripal-b2720659.html

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1. Harvard scientist opposed Ukraine war fears deportation back to Russia after US visa revoked

A Harvard scientist who fled Russia because she opposed the war in Ukraine is facing deportation from the U.S. after being detained over undeclared frog embryos.

Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at the U.S. border on February 16 while returning from France and had her visa revoked, according to her friend Cora Anderson.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed Petrova’s detention in a statement to The Independent, alleging that she had “knowingly broken the law” by attempting to “smuggle” undeclared frog embryos and petri dishes through customs.

Petrova’s lawyer, Gregory Romanovsky, ... accused U.S. Customs and Border Protection of trying to “punish” her by revoking her visa, and said it was “quite likely” she would receive a long jail sentence if sent back to Russia ...

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/harvard-scientist-who-opposed-ukraine-war-fears-deportation-back-to-russia-after-having-her-us-visa-revoked/ar-AA1BOggU

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2. Putin will kill her or send her to Siberia.

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3. At the very least, raped and humiliated over and over

Prisons in russia are torture chambers.

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4. Yes Russian soldiers love vodka and viagra for this purpose.

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5. Eyes on this story. n/t

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6. I was compelled to watch the Navalny documentary multiple times.

It was an amazing piece of work. His story and his courage will live on in so many of our hearts.

I got to know Christo and Bellingcat through Navalny, the documentary and the man.

I will try and find the documentary about Christo, to watch it.

Thank you.