Putin mentor demoted after publicly criticising him dies from unexplained disease
Putin mentor demoted after publicly criticising him dies from unexplained disease
Cherkesov was a mentor of Putin and his ‘unexplained death’ was announced via Telegram (Picture: east2west news)
A close KGB spy mentor of Vladimir Putin’s who suffered demotion after publicly criticising the Kremlin leader has died from an unexplained ‘serious disease’ .
Ruthless Viktor Cherkesov, 72, once in charge of crushing Soviet dissidents, was crucial to the Russian president’s rise but…