Murders and wars in the Putin era - Statistics

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Year Hint Answer % Correct
2022- Eastern European country attacked by Russia on Feb 24 Ukraine
97%
2014 Peninsula invaded and later annexed by Russia Crimea
90%
2008 Caucasian country invaded by Russia during a conflict between central government and a separatist Russian-backed region. Several hundred people are killed. Georgia
85%
1999-2009 Autonomous Republic in the Caucasus, theater of a Russian millitary operation, killing at least 7500 soldiers and 25'000 civilians Chechnya
69%
2020 Russian opposition leader poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent (Alexei) Navalny
69%
2015- Russian troops intervene in the civil war of this Middle Eastern country on behalf of its dictator Syria
67%
2019- Russian mercenaries of the infamous Wagner group (which is said to be funded by a businessman with close links to Putin) intervene in the civil war of this country in North Africa Libya
59%
2023 Mercenary leader killed in a mysterious plane crash on Aug 23, weeks after he revolted against Putin (Yevgeny) Prigozhin
59%
2014 Conflict escalates between the central government of an Eastern European country and these two separatist "people's republics" backed by Russian military (name either) Donetsk / Luhansk
56%
2002 What type of building is "Dubrovka" where terrorists take 850 people hostage? The attempt to free them results in the death of 130. Theater
49%
2019 European capital where Chechen-Georgian militant Zelimkhan Khangoshvili is assassinated in "Kleiner Tiergarten" by a Russian secret agent Berlin
44%
1999 Bombs explode in four of these structures in Russia, killing more than 300 people Apartment blocks
38%
2004 Caucasian site of a school tragedy. More than 300 people die when special forces try to liberate 1100 people taken hostage by terrorists. Beslan
36%
2018 UK city where former Russian secret agent Sergei Skripal and daughter Yulia are poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent. They survive but uninvolved Dawn Sturgess dies months later. Salisbury
31%
2006 Former secret agent and defector fatally poisoned with Polonium in London (Alexander) Litvinenko
28%
2015 Liberal Russian politician assassinated near the Kremlin (Boris) Nemtsov
28%
2007 Investigative journalist assassinated in the elevator of her Moscow apartment block (Anna) Politkovskaya
18%
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