Putin critic's pal was strangled

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Putin critic's pal was strangled
by Tom Winter and Corky Siemaszko

British police launched a murder investigation Friday after an autopsy revealed that a Russian exile who was critical of Vladimir Putin was strangled in his home.

Nikolay Glushkov, whose body was found Monday, died as a result of “compression to the neck,” London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.

Glushkov's death was a eerie echo of his friend Boris Berezovsky, an exiled Russian oligarch and an outspoken critic of Putin who was found in 2013 with a rope around his neck — and whose death was initially a suspected suicide. It was reclassified as unexplained.

Read more at: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/friend-dead-putin-critic-was-strangled-british-police-say-n857346