Homicidal politics in Russia?

NY Times:

More of Kremlin’s Opponents Are Ending Up Dead


Mysterious deaths and close calls have some opposition figures worried that political murder is resurgent in Russian foreign policy.
The Clinton's too, have had their share of mysterious deaths among people associated with them.  Many of them have been described as suicides.  It must really be depressing hanging around with them.  In the case of the Clintons, most of the deaths involved former associates.

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