November 23, 2006: Former Federal Security Service agent and harsh Kremlin critic Aleksandr Litvinenko dies in London of a mysterious poisoning.
October 19, 2006: Dmitry Fotyanov, a mayoral candidate in the Far East city of Dalnegorsk, is gunned down as he left his campaign headquarters. The killing came just a week before a scheduled runoff election in the Primorsky Krai city.
October 15, 2006: Aleksandr Semyonov, a member of the Irbit city council who had spent 10 years in prison, is found dead with gunshot wounds in his back. Also, Anatoly Voronin, the head of ITAR-TASS's property management department, is found dead in his apartment. According to Moscow prosecutors, his body bore traces of violent death, including "multiple knife wounds."
October 7, 2006: Prominent journalist and critic of the Kremlin's policy in Chechnya Anna Politkovskaya is shot dead in her apartment building. Former Soviet President Gorbachev calls her slaying "a true political homicide, a vendetta."
September 14, 2006: Central Bank Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov is gunned down in Moscow. Kozlov played a leading role in efforts to stamp out money laundering in Russian banks.
October 16, 2005: Aleksandr Slesarev, former owner of two Russian banks, is shot dead with his wife and daughter outside of Moscow. "The murder may be linked with the revocation of a banking license and unfulfilled banking liabilities," a police representative said at the time.
March 17, 2005:
Anatoly Chubais
, head of the state-controlled electricity monopoly and architect of Russia's controversial privatization in the early 1990s, survives an explosion near his car and a gun attack.
July 9, 2004:
Paul Klebnikov
, a U.S. citizen and editor of the Russian-language version of Forbes magazine, is gunned down outside his Moscow office. Klebnikov had written at length about corruption, and Forbes had published a list of Russia's richest people.
March 2, 2004: Novosibirsk Deputy Mayor Valery Maryasov, the official responsible for privatization in the Siberian city, is shot dead in his apartment building.
October 12, 2003: Controversial businessman Andrei Andreyev, locked in court battle with Kremlin-connected aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, narrowly survives gun attack. Case unsolved.
July 3, 2003: Yury Shchekochikhin, liberal lawmaker and investigative journalist, dies of a mysterious allergic reaction. Many believe it was a case of deliberate poisoning, but the incident was never investigated as a murder.
June 7, 2003: Sergei Shchitko, the commercial director of the RATEP defense plant, is found shot to death in his car in Serpukhov, a small city near about 90 kilometers south of Moscow.
June 6, 2003: Igor Klimov, the acting general director of defense contractor Almaz-Antei, is shot dead outside his home in downtown Moscow.
April 17, 2003: Sergei Yushenkov, veteran liberal politician and leader of a staunchly anti-Kremlin party, is shot dead.
March 14, 2003: Promeksimbank Vice President Andrei Ivanov is killed in Moscow.
November 6, 2002: Promyshlenno-stroitelnyi Bank Director Leonid Davidenko is killed in St. Petersburg.
October 18, 2002: Magadan Oblast Governor Valentin Tsvetkov is shot dead in central Moscow. He had been trying to crack down on rampant crime in his Pacific region's gold and oil industries.
June 3, 2002: Alfavit financial group Chairman Pavel Shcherbakov is killed in Moscow.
May 21, 2002: Major-General Vitaly Gamov, commander of border guards on the Far Eastern Sakhalin Island, dies in an arson attack on his apartment. The attack is believed to have been motivated by his attempts to clamp down on illegal seafood smuggling.
June 29, 2000: Akademkhimbank Chairman Sergei Ponamarev is killed in Moscow.
December 30, 1999: Businessman Mikhail Dakhya is killed by a sniper in central St Petersburg. Dakhya was in the timber business in Novgorod Oblast.
November 17, 1999: Intersvyazbank Chairman Sergei Belov is killed in Moscow.
Galina Starovoitova was gunned down in the entrance to her St. Petersburg apartment building in November 1998 (AFP file photo)