Smolensk crash related deaths: General Sławomir Petelicki, founder and former head of the “Grom” unit. He was found dead on 16 June 2012. On numerous occasions he openly criticised the findings of the State Commission on Aircraft Accidents Investigation and the fact that the Polish government was dilatory in establishing the causes of the Smolensk crash. After the crash, General Sławomir Petelicki stated to the press that politicians from the governing party (Civic Platform) received a text message with instructions on what to say: “The crash was caused by the pilots, who went down below 100 meters. It remains to be determined who made them do it.” According to Petelicki, the author of the text message was one of three: Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister Tomasz Arabski or the government spokesperson, Paweł Graś. Petelicki had a lot of information about these people, he often pointed out who should be dismissed from a certain position, and who should be appointed instead to make the Poland-NATO relations tighter. He died from shooting wounds. At the beginning, media reported 4 shots in the back, later correcting the reports to 1 shot. First it was reported that it was a shot to the temple, then to the face, and later – “a shot to the head”. In the end the media reported a shot to the back of the head. If it is true that Sławomir Petelicki “shot himself in the back of the head” and as a result of the shot, the medulla oblongata was damaged or broken, we are certain that the Russians are responsible (GRU). A shot to the back of the head, into the medulla oblongata, is intended to cause short but unimaginable pain before death. Actually, the body shuts down due to unimaginable pain. It is a killing technique combined with incurring pain typical for the Soviets.
Smolensk crash related deaths: The ensign Remigiusz Muś died during the night from Saturday to Sunday 27 October 2012. He was a major witness in the Smolensk investigation, an on-board technician of Jak-40 plane that carried journalists, landing at the Smolensk airport on 10 April 2010, shortly before the Smolensk crash (thus landing at the Smolensk an hour before the Tu154M crash). The Spokesperson of the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, Dariusz Ślepakura, informed that supposedly there were no traces on the body that would indicate participation of third parties. However, no farewell letter was found, which could indicate that the ensign committed suicide. Muś was another important witness in the Smolensk investigation, who died in mysterious circumstances. Remigiusz Muś revealed for example that during their decent and approach for landing, on April 10th, the tower controller ordered them to go down to 50 meters. The on-board technician from Jak-40 ensured that he heard an identical command given to the crew of TU-154M by the control tower (He was listening in from a head set within the Jak-40 cockpit). Remigiusz Muś, who was a crew member of Jak-40 together with Lieutenant Artur Wosztyl (first pilot) and Lieutenant Rafał Koleczko, also said that he heard two explosions just before the crash of the presidential Tupolev plane. At the time he stated he was unable to recognise the source and cause of the explosions.
Smolensk crash related deaths: Professor Urbanowicz, 61 years old, died two days after a report was published, that the State Election Committee servers were located in Russia and operated by Russian IT specialists. Preliminary results of elections were transferred to Russia, filtered and then returned to Poland. He was the co-organiser of the first expert Smolensk conference: http://smolenskcrash.eu/news-45-lets-allow-the-evidence-to-speak-for-itself.html
Smolensk crash related deaths: In November 2012, an officer of the Government Protection Bureau (BOR), Adam A., a bomb disposal expert, died in Kazakhstan. Until August 2012 he secured the governmental planes Tu-154M. Lieutenant Adam A was not on the list of BOR officers allocated to secure the Polish delegations to Katyn on 7 and 10 April 2010 – Adam A. did not participate in the reception of the Tu-154M plane repaired in the Russian Samara in December 2009. However, before and after, the BOR bomb disposal experts inspected Tu-154M planes, used by the state delegations. In August 2012 he was allocated to secure the Polish consulate in Alma Ata. Adam A. died in Alma Ata. He was beaten up two days before his death. Warsaw's Prosecutor's Office is now conducting an investigation to determine the causes of his death.
Smolensk crash related deaths: Krzysztof Zalewski - found dead on December 10th, 2012 - was investigating the Smolensk crash, an expert in the area of aviation, a journalist and a military historian, who issued numerous statements on the above-mentioned crash was murdered in Warsaw. Krzysztof Zalewski was the vice-president of the company Magnum-X issuing magazines dedicated to the military issues as well as the former editor-in-chief of the “Lotnictwo” (Aviation) magazine. He became known more widely as the author of comments on the Smolensk crash. His analyses - in-depth, interesting and factual - always facilitated better understanding of complicated technical issues. He was not afraid to criticise official findings and presentations. He was also one of the protagonists of the documentary entitled "10.04.10" by Anita Gargas. He criticised the reports of the Interstate Aviation Committee and Jerzy Miller’s Committee. He was the guest at the Smolensk Conference, organized on the 22nd Ocotober 2012.
Since 2012 any NGO that receives funding from outside the Russian Federation are vilified by the Ministry of Justice as 'foreign agents'.
President Vladimir Putin has signed a controversial new law on education. The law text officially recognizes the right to education in languages of Russia’s ethnic minorities, but does not make it mandatory of completely guarantee such education.
Vladimir Putin wins presidential elections. Opponents take to the streets of several major cities to protest at the conduct of the election, and the police arrest hundreds.
Law goes into force requiring non-governmental organisations receiving funds from abroad to be classed as "foreign agents", in what critics say is part of a wider crackdown on dissent.
US, EU and human rights groups condemn jail sentences imposed on three members of punk band Pussy Riot over an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral. The women were sentenced to two years for hooliganism.
10.11 A wealthy Russian businessman Alexander Perepilichnyy, who died suddenly near his home in Surrey may have been poisoned, a pre-inquest hearing has been told. Mr Perepilichnyy had told colleagues in London he had received death threats, reports BBC world affairs correspondent Richard Galpin.
Angered by a US bill blacklisting Russian officials in connection with the death in custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, Moscow bans Americans from adopting Russian children and stops US-funded non-governmental organisations from working in Russia.
2010-2012 Tajikistan insurgency
2003-2013 Yukos oil boss and prominent liberal Mikhail Khodorkovsky arrested on charges of tax evasion and fraud, an early casualty of President Putin's campaign to drive Yeltsin-era 'oligarchs' out of politics. In 2005 he is sentenced to nine years imprisonment, and is pardoned and goes into exile in 2013.
2011- Involvement in Iraqi insurgency
2011- Involvment to Syrian civil war
2009- North Caucasus Insurgency
2007- War in Ingushetia
2000- Chechen Insurgency
1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict