Putin foe reveals warning sign that helped him escape assassination attempt - New York Post

Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of Gulagu.net — an organization that exposed purported evidence of widespread torture and rape in Russian prisons last year — told independent journalist Yulia Latynina that his brush with death took place last week in the city of Biarritz.

Speaking to Latynina via videoconference on Tuesday, Osechkin revealed that he had been warned that his life was in danger by Christo Grozev, with the Netherlands-based investigative journalism group Bellingcat.

Osechkin said his security team convinced him to leave his house for two days as a precaution, but the activist and his family returned home at his insistence after a weekend trip to the mountains.

Then one evening, Osechkin recounted, his wife and children had just returned home from the theater and were about to have dinner when he said he spotted something out of the corner of his eye.