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Not Even a Putinist Minister's Suicide Could Unite Russia's Opposition

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14.07.2025

The death of the Transport Minister and former governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit split Russia’s already fractured opposition.

Supporters of the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) were the first to react. Their reaction was predictable: "Another servant of the dictator died." Leonid Volkov, head of political projects, wrote that it was "the most honest way” to get off the list where the organization recommends individuals for sanctioning.

However, the wide range of people on this list raises questions over the list’s purpose in the first place. Remember how the founders of the facial recognition system NtechLab, Artem Kukharenko and Alexander Kabakov, , were removed from the list following public disussion about how the did not meet the inclusion criteria, only to be added back on later? Despite them having resigned over disagreement with the firm’s decision to keep operating in Russia, they remain on the list.

The picture is muddied further by........

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