THE OBIT PATROL

Interesting, overlooked, and significant obituaries from around the world, as they happen, emphasizing the positive achievements of those who have died. Member, Society of Professional Obituary Writers.

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Elena Gremina

Murdered playwright -- via the Daily Beast. Killed, as was her husband and their lawyer earlier, presumably for her anti-Putin play One Hour and Eighteen Minutes, concerning the murder of Putin opponent Sergei Magnitsky.

One Hour Eighteen Minutes by Elena Gremina from Noah Birksted-Breen on Vimeo.

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