Putin is ex-KGB (directly subservient); Kadyrov thinks he was poisoned by the GRU (Russian military, not quite so directly subservient).
Both under Putin, but competing intelligence services in a country where leadership is defined by infighting. It’s a tossup as to whether Putin ordered it or simply allowed it, in the same way that someone Putin favors today can die of lead poisoning out a window in an airplane crash by suicide tomorrow.
Putin is ex-KGB (directly subservient); Kadyrov thinks he was poisoned by the GRU (Russian military, not quite so directly subservient).
Both under Putin, but competing intelligence services in a country where leadership is defined by infighting. It’s a tossup as to whether Putin ordered it or simply allowed it, in the same way that someone Putin favors today can die of lead poisoning out a window in an airplane crash by suicide tomorrow.