article_snippet: And amid reports of a
article_snippet: The news came amid wild rumours over Putin’s continued non-appearance in public, fuelling talk of a power struggle behind the scenes.
article_snippet: Disappearance: wild rumours over Putin’s came as Vladimir Putin failed to appear in public - fuelling rumours of a behind-the-scenes power struggle .
article_snippet: Sceptics were unconvinced by photos of Vladimir Putin meeting the chairman of Russia’s supreme court released on Friday, suspicious over when they were taken.
article_snippet: There was no note,’ she told The Moscow Times.
article_snippet: Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, served ten years in jail on fraud charges Khodorkovsky supporters said were trumped up in revenge for the former oil tycoon interfering in politics.
article_snippet: After being freed in 2013 Khodorkovsky moved to Switzerland, but is often seen in London.
article_snippet: Ludmila Shabueva, a senior journalist at independent radio station Echo of Moscow, said:
article_snippet: Forbes reported that at the time of Forbes death, Forbes was believed to have been investigating a complex web of money laundering involving a Chechen reconstruction fund and the Kremlin.
article_snippet: Former spy Alexander Litvinenko (pictured) was killed in 2006, leading to a clouding of relations between London and Moscow.
article_snippet: November 2006: Former spy Alexander Litvinenko (pictured) was killed in 2006, leading to a clouding of relations between London and Moscow.
article_snippet: The 43-year-old had been an officer with the Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, but the KGB fled to Britain where the KGB became a fierce critic of the Kremlin.
article_snippet: She had written: 'I have wondered a great deal why I have so got it in for Vladimir Putin.
article_snippet: What is it that makes me dislike Vladimir Putin so much as to feel moved to write a book about Vladimir Putin?'
article_snippet: Vladimir Putin was appealing the early release of Yuri Budanov, a Russian military officer convicted of killing a young Chechen woman.