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An activist guarding Nemtsov's Moscow memorial died after an attack by a pro-Putin thug. Investigators are treating it as a ‘fight’Russian Federal Investigative Committee08:48, 25 august 2017Russian investigators are reviewing the death of Ivan Skripnichenko, the activist who died roughly a week after a pro-Putin thug attacked him while he was guarding the makeshift memorial to Boris Nemtsov at the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. Police are reportedly treating the attack as a “fight,” not an assault. A forensic expert has been appointed to review his case, though it’s unclear if investigators are examining the attack a week before Skripnichenko died, or just his death on August 23.Investigators say they currently believe Skripnichenko died from cardiomyopathy, a disease affecting the heart muscle that puts people at risk of sudden cardiac death. One of Skripnichenko’s fellow activists told the website Mediazona that he believes he died from a delayed pulmonary embolism caused by the attack.Continued: https://meduza.io/en/news/2017/08/25/an-activist-guarding-nemtsov-s-moscow-memorial-died-after-an-attack-by-a-pro-putin-thug-investigators-are-treating-it-as-a-fight
Russian Activist's Death Reignites Tensions Over Vigil For Slain Opposition Leader MOSCOW -- Olga Skripnichenko says she was always trying to talk her husband out of patrolling the site of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov's 2014 assassination, where pro-Kremlin activists have repeatedly vandalized a makeshift memorial and roughed up its volunteer guardians."I argued with him so many times trying to convince him not to go," she told RFE/RL in a telephone interview on August 25, her voice trembling as she fought to hold back tears. "He said that he's an honest person, and that he had to go -- that it's important to preserve [Nemtsov's] memory."The kind of violence that she feared was ultimately visited upon her husband, 36-year-old Ivan Skripnichenko, on August 15. ...Continued: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-nemtsov-memorial-attacks-lead-to-activist-death/28697164.html
