Originally Posted by dyna mo

A year earlier, Putin warned publicly that his opponents were prepared to murder one of their own so they could blame him for the death.

?They are looking for a so-called sacrificial victim among some prominent figures,? Putin, a former KGB agent, told a gathering of the All-Russia Popular Front, a group organized to support him, ahead of Russia?s 2012 presidential election. ?They will knock him off, I beg your pardon, and then blame the authorities for that.?