285

Famed Russian chef, a Putin critic who owned a restaurant in London, found dead in Belgrade (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Summary

Russian chef Alexei Zimin, a vocal critic of Moscow’s war in Ukraine, was found dead in his Belgrade apartment while visiting to promote his new book.

Zimin, who has lived in London since opposing Russia’s actions in Crimea in 2014, had publicly condemned the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Zimin’s death adds to a series of mysterious fatalities among Kremlin critics, fueling concerns over Russia’s global reach and intimidation tactics against dissenters.

top 14 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Dozens of Vladimir Putin's enemies have suffered mysterious deaths in Russia and Europe and Matt Olsen...

I'm going to stay outside of Matt Olsen.

[-] Deello@lemm.ee 7 points 15 hours ago

Guess they don't have windows in Belgrade

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 56 points 22 hours ago

"mysterious"

at least they've upgraded from "suicide"

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 42 points 23 hours ago

Yeah don't go to mini Russia.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 14 points 22 hours ago

Serbia is mini Russia? I thought that was Belarus.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 37 points 21 hours ago

That's medium Russia

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 19 points 21 hours ago

Belgrade has a bunch of Russians who suddenly had somewhere else to be a couple Februaries ago.

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, turns out it's kinda hard to dodge the draft for a war you hate when all the countries that allegedly oppose it closed their borders to you.

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 1 points 21 hours ago

don't go to mini Serbia

[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

Let me guess... He fell onto all of his chef knives at once?

[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 17 points 20 hours ago

Another one for the wiki article: Suspicious deaths of notable Russians

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Knowing Putin, no shock.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 22 hours ago

damn i wonder if he had a PMC

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

A simple Hotdog vendor.

this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024

285 points (99.0% liked)

World News

39011 readers

2476 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Rule 1: posts have the following requirements:
- Post news articles only
- Video links are NOT articles and will be removed.
- Title must match the article headline
- Not United States Internal News
- Recent (Past 30 Days)
- Screenshots/links to other social media sites (Twitter/X/Facebook/Youtube/reddit, etc.) are explicitly forbidden, as are link shorteners.
Rule 2: Do not copy the entire article into your post. The key points in 1-2 paragraphs is allowed (even encouraged!), but large segments of articles posted in the body will result in the post being removed. If you have to stop and think "Is this fair use?", it probably isn't. Archive links, especially the ones created on link submission, are absolutely allowed but those that avoid paywalls are not.
Rule 3: Opinions articles, or Articles based on misinformation/propaganda may be removed. Sources that have a Low or Very Low factual reporting rating or MBFC Credibility Rating may be removed.
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
Posts and comments must abide by the lemmy.world terms of service UPDATED AS OF 10/19
Rule 5: Keep it civil. It's OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It's NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

Rule 6: Memes, spam, other low effort posting, reposts, misinformation, advocating violence, off-topic, trolling, offensive, regarding the moderators or meta in content may be removed at any time.
Rule 7: We didn't USED to need a rule about how many posts one could make in a day, then someone posted NINETEEN articles in a single day. Not comments, FULL ARTICLES. If you're posting more than say, 10 or so, consider going outside and touching grass. We reserve the right to limit over-posting so a single user does not dominate the front page.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.