The death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and accusations that Vladimir Putin was behind it have once again raised the spectre of Kremlin assassinations.
World leaders and commentators instantly pointed the finger at the Russian president when the news of Navalny’s death broke on Friday, with questions around the cause of death fuelled by officials delaying the release of the body.
Some have suggested the 47-year-old dissident was poisoned – as he was in 2020 in a previous…