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Russian autopsy shows Navalny locked self in Siberian gulag, poisoned self (www.thebeaverton.com)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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"MOSCOW – Officials from the Kremlin, under the close supervision of Russian President Vladimir Putin, have concluded an autopsy of Alexei Navalny, concluding that the recently-deceased opposition leader spontaneously sentenced himself to 30 years in a remote Siberian gulag before then ingesting his own poison that he brought from home."

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[–] dasgoat@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's more the US style of getting rid of dissidents

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

In the 70s or 80s, sure. But I think the CIA at this point is incredibly efficient at just disappearing someone, or staging an accident so believable it couldn’t be an assassination. If agent 47 exists he’s a CIA operative.