Sunday, Dan Rapoport, 52, was discovered lying on the sidewalk in his upscale Georgetown neighborhood. The DC Metro police are still investigating the cause of death of the well-known Putin critic. Police are waiting for the medical examiner’s report. And do not suspect foul play.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, many of Putin’s most vocal detractors have died. Around the globe, Putin’s critics and sometimes their families are dying mysterious deaths. Some of them are made to look like suicide.
In 2017, Sergei Tkachenko, who co-owned a Moscow nightclub with Rapoport also died mysteriously. And there are reports from Russia that he killed himself.
Continent-hopping Putin critic
At the time of Rapoport’s birth in Latvia, the Balkan country was still part of the Soviet Union. When he was a child, his family sought political asylum in the US.
By 1991, when Rapoport graduated from the University of Houston, the Soviet Union had fallen. He moved to Russia and became a successful investment banker where he was a principal in a Russia-based VC firm.
