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You can kill Johnny too. MGS canon is kind of wobbly on these things. Raikov is a joke character whose existence breaks the 4th wall, so, right now, any continuity snarls he causes (for example, by appearing in Portable Ops after dying in Snake Eater) can just be handwaved as unimportant. Similarly, Johnny gets upgraded to full plot relevance in MGS4, even though this is explicitly the same Johnny who was possibly strangled to death by Solid Snake in 2005. If Johnny appeared in a game made today that was set between 2005 and 2014, killing him would now be a time paradox. Raikov is not currently important enough to cause time paradoxes, but he could be if for example it were revealed that he really is related to Raiden.

Still, he is almost certainly not Skull Face. Skull Face does kind of a lot of raping to have previously been a joke character.