Nina Litvinova, a widely respected Soviet-era dissident who spent six decades fighting state totalitarianism, has died by suicide at the age of 80, leaving behind a stark final indictment of Russian President Vladimir Putin , Nexta TV reported on X. Her cousin, the well-known journalist Masha Slonim, published Litvinova’s farewell letter on social media with the brief, powerful caption: “Putin killed her”. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . In her