38 Russian critics’ mystery deaths

Thirty-eight Russians, including two connected to President Trump and 10 prominent critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, have been the victims of unsolved murders or suspicious deaths since 2014, according to a report Tuesday.

They include 12 who were shot, stabbed or beaten to death, USA Today reported.

Another six died in explosions. One died of mysterious head injuries and one slipped in a public bath, another was hanged in his jail cell and one died while drinking coffee. Six more causes of death were reported as unknown.

Two — Oleg Erovinkin and Alex Oronov — are linked to a dossier written by former British spy Christopher Steele that alleges Trump campaign officials colluded with the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential election, the report said.

Oronov, 69, a Ukrainianborn businessman, died of unexplained circumstances on March 2. He had arranged a meeting with Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, Trump associate Felix Sater and An- drii Artemenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, to discuss a peace plan for Ukraine giving Putin control of Crimea.

Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian political activist, claims Moscow is silencing its critics.

“We’ve seen political opposition leaders and activists, whistle-blowers, anticorruption campaigners and independent journalists lose their lives in one way or another,” KaraMurza told USA Today.