Ruslan Magomedragimov (russian: Руслан Магомедкасумович Магомедрагимов) was a Russian activist from
Dagestan
Dagestan ( ; rus, Дагеста́н, , dəɡʲɪˈstan, links=yes), officially the Republic of Dagestan (russian: Респу́блика Дагеста́н, Respúblika Dagestán, links=no), is a republic of Russia situated in the North C ...
. He was involved with the movement "
Sadval" (Unity), advocating for the autonomy or independence of the
Lezgin people.
He was found dead on 24 March 2015 in
Kaspiysk
Kaspiysk (russian: Каспи́йск; lbe, Ккасппи; av, Каспиялъухъ) is a city in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Caspian Sea, southeast of Makhachkala. The 2010 Russian census recorded the city as being the f ...
under suspicious circumstances, although the official investigation concluded he died from natural causes.
Sadval movement issued a statement in which its leader,
Nazim Hajiyev, publicly stated that he was convinced that Magomedragimov had been killed due to his activism. (Hajiyev himself would be murdered a year later.)
In 2021, an investigation by
Spiegel
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,
Bellingcat
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and
The Insider, suggested that Magomedragimov might have been the victim of the same
FSB team that was involved in the
poisoning of Alexei Navalny
On 20 August 2020, Russian opposition figure and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Novichok nerve agent and was hospitalized in serious condition. During a flight from Tomsk to Moscow, he became ill and was taken to a ho ...
.
References
2015 deaths
Russian activists
People from Dagestan
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