Zimbler0: > Re: “WHO in Russia is actually powerful enough to assassinate Putin?”
Decomposed > You're sounding naive, but okay. In the leftmost photo below, the woman behind Putin could - or could have - done it. The man, probably military, standing behind her could do it too. In the rightmost photo there are a whole BUNCH of people who are powerful enough to assassinate him.
Please allow me to rephrase the question. "Who would have the motive and the ability to take over after assassinating Putin?
As for the people in the pictures . . . Sure, they 'could' kill Putin. But why? I would imagine those people are 'living a good life' for being close to Putin.
Also, it appears Gorbachev Resigned and died of old age. Not assassinated for breaking up the U.S.S.R.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
(2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022)
was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.
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Gorbachev reached a deal with Yeltsin that called for Gorbachev to formally announce his resignation as Soviet president and Commander-in-Chief on 25 December, before vacating the Kremlin by 29 December.
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Gorbachev was the third out of eight Soviet leaders, after Malenkov and Khrushchev, not to die in office.
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July 2022 as he developed kidney problems, which led to him being transferred for hemodialysis.
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On 29 August 2022, Gorbachev arrived at the Central Clinical Hospital for another hemodialysis, where he died on 30 August at approximately 10:00 p.m. Moscow time.
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Zim.
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