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16 empresarios rusos han perdido la vida en aparentes suicidios o accidentes este año

16 empresarios rusos han perdido la vida en aparentes suicidios o accidentes este año

16 empresarios rusos han perdido la vida en aparentes suicidios o accidentes este año Leonid Shulman, Ígor Nosov, Alejandro Tyulakov, Mijail watford, Vasili Melnikov, Vladislav Avayev, Sergey protosenya, Andrei Krukovski, Alejandro Subbotín, Yuri voronov, Dan rapport, Ravil Maganov, Iván Pechorin, Vladímir Sungorkin, Anatoly Gerashchenko, y Pavel Pchelnikov Varios oligarcas rusos han muerto en…

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Russian oil giant Lukoil has lost yet another top executive under mysterious circumstances as its vice president died “suddenly” at the age of 53, adding to a spate of deaths of figures linked to the gas and oil industry in the country.

The company announced the death of Vitaly Robertus in a brief statement Wednesday, expressing “deep regret” over his death but providing no further details on the manner in which he died.

His passing comes after a string of bizarre deaths at the company. Most recently, in late October, Vladimir Nekrasov, the chairman of the company’s board, died unexpectedly of what the company said was acute heart failure. He was 66 and had been brought in to head the board after the previous chairman, Ravil Maganov, plunged from a sixth-floor hospital window and died in September 2022.

Months earlier, in May 2022, another top executive at the company died under strange circumstances. Alexander Subbotin was said to have died of a “drug-induced heart attack,” with Kremlin-friendly media outlets claiming he’d ingested some kind of toad venom while visiting with a shaman.

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Two Russian State Duma deputies with the ruling United Russia party were reported dead on Sunday.

The death of 77-year-old Nikolay Bortsov, who served as a State Duma deputy since 2003, was announced by Igor Artamanov, the governor of the Lipetsk region. He died at his home Lebedyan.

On the same day, State Duma Deputy Dzhasharbek Uzdenov died at the age of 57 after a "serious and prolonged illness," Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the United Russia faction, said.

A number of prominent Russians have died in unexplained or unusual circumstances since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

No cause was given for Bortsov's death. He had previously been hit by sanctions from the United States and other Western countries in connection with Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Newsweek reached out to Russia's Foreign Ministry via email for comment.

Bortsov was one of Russia's wealthiest government employees, with an estimated net worth of $550 million, according to the Latvia-based independent news outlet Meduza. He was included by Forbes in 2021 in a ranking of the country's 100 richest federal workers.

He was sentenced in absentia in Ukraine to 15 years in prison on March 21 alongside 19 other members of the Russian State Duma for voting to recognize Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.

The Security Service of Ukraine said those convicted were: Sergey Altukhov, Andrey Alshevsky, Olga Zanko, Andrey Anikeev, Grigory Anikeev, Valentina Artamonova, Otari Arshba, Alena Arshinova, Timofey Bazhenov, Zarif Baiguskarov, Nikolay Bortsov, Vadim Bulavinov, Dmitry Islamov, Mikhail Kuzmin, Denis Maidanov, Nikolai Pankov, Yuri Petrov, Olga Pilipenko, Valentina Pivnenko, and Dmitry Pogorely.

The head of Russia's Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin called the verdict illegal.

Uzdenov, 56, was a member of Russia's House Committee on Ecology, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection.

"A hard day. Death snatched another comrade from our ranks. Jasharbek (Dzhasharbek) Borisovich Uzdenov, a deputy of the State Duma, the former Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic died after a severe and prolonged illness," Vasilyev said.

Vasilyev expressed his condolences to the relatives and friends of Uzdenov.

"Sensitive, attentive, strong-willed, always ready to help—this is how we will remember Jasharbek Borisovich. He fought for a long time, but, unfortunately, the disease turned out to be stronger. We will miss him very much," he said.

Uzdenov was elected to the State Duma on September 19, 2021. He came under U.S. and New Zealand sanctions after the war began.

At least 20 Russians have died in mysterious circumstances since the war began last February, including Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Lukoil, Yuri Voronov, the founder and general director of the Astra-Shipping transport and logistics company, Vladislav Avayev, a former Kremlin official and vice president of Gazprombank, and Major General Vladimir Makarov, an officer who oversaw the Kremlin's crackdown on anti-war protesters.

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Ravil Maganov:Russian Lukoil boss passes on in 'tumble from emergency clinic window'

The executive of Russia's Lukoil oil monster, Ravil Maganov, has passed on in the wake of tumbling from an emergency clinic window in Moscow, reports say.

The organization affirmed his demise however said just that Maganov, 67, had "died following an extreme disease".

Russian media said he was being treated at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital and passed on from his wounds.

Maganov is the most recent of various high-profile business chiefs to kick the bucket in secretive conditions.

Exploring specialists said they were working at the scene to lay out how he passed on. Tass news organization cited sources saying he had dropped out of a 6th floor window right off the bat Thursday morning, adding later that he had ended his own life. Read More

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Ucciso ad aprile del 2003 con un singolo colpo di pistola al petto...

Ucciso nel luglio del 2004, con un attacco alla sua auto in pieno stile mafioso...

Uccisa a ottobre del 2006 da alcuni sicari...

Con l’omicidio di Alexander Litvinenko, gli omicidi brutali in stile regolamento di conti mafioso diminuiscono, lasciando il posto a metodi più sottili e simili a quelli da film sullo spionaggio...

Uccisi entrambi nel 2009, erano due collaboratori di Anna Politkovskaya...

Prima rapita e poi trovata morta nel luglio 2009 in un bosco...

Trovato morto nel 2013, chiuso nel bagno della sua casa in Regno unito...

Ucciso nel 2015 con quattro colpi di pistola alla schina, a due passi dal Cremlino...

Ucciso a Washington nel novembre 2015 con un colpo alla testa...

Nell’ultimo anno, a seguito dell’invasione dell’Ucraina, gli omicidi misteriosi ai danni di manager collegati alla Russia si sono moltiplicati...

Come Rapoport, anche Ravil Maganov aveva criticato apertamente l’invasione dell’Ucraina e come lui è morto in circostanze misteriose...

Morto anche lui a seguito di una caduta, questa volta dalla finestra di un hotel a Rayagada, in India...

L’ultimo a essere, probabilmente, epurato per aver sfidato Putin è l’ormai ex capo dei mercenari Wagner...

Alexei Navalny è morto il 16 febbraio 2024. Il leader dell’opposizione a Vladimir Putin...

Davvero una serie avvincente. Consiglio. La prima stagione un pò così, ma poi cresce molto...

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Russian Oligarchs Leaping To Their Deaths

Stay away from balconies and windows if you are a Russian oligarch, as there have been a spate of unfortunate accidents it seems. Around 15 have died in suspicious circumstances over the last couple of years, with most falling from grace sine the war in Ukraine has kicked off. Coincidence is being stretched to its far fetched limits as these business leaders are toppling over like nine pins. Is this a consolidation push from Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin? Holding onto top jobs inside and outside of Russia appears to be a very dangerous occupation. Russian oligarchs leaping to their deaths seems to be a sideways move in any succession plan.

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Suicide Or A Step To The Left?

Ravil Maganov, Yegor Prosvimin, Kirill Zhalo, Alexander Kagansky, Dan Rapoport, and now Pavel Antov the sausage king has joined the window jumping conga line of supposed suicides. These deaths are on top of another bunch of Russian oligarch fatalities from heart attacks and suicides that seem way too strangely coincidental to be innocent. Could it be the Russian KGB or whatever security service acronym is now in use up to their old tricks? Don’t criticise the war in Ukraine whatever you do, as it is not good for your health comrade.

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Corporate Life In Russia Lacks A Retirement Plan CEOs everywhere must be looking over their shoulders in case this new trend takes off in the west. The golden handshake could be replaced by the parachuteless leap of faith. Imagine the savings for share holders long term. The Putin method of corporate management means much less waste and lower outgoings. Over the edge savings would be minimal. “According to CNN, at least 12 Russian elites have mysteriously died by suicide or under unexplained circumstances amid escalating geopolitical tensions between Russia and Ukraine this year, but nothing has yet suggested the deaths are linked. Among the earliest of the unexplained fatalities, Gazprom director Leonid Shulman reportedly died by suicide in late January, and less than a month later, Alexander Tyulakov, another Gazprom executive, was found dead in the garage of his St Petersburg home. Experts have started raising their eyebrows. “We can almost certainly rule out the official explanation of the deaths as suicides or poor health,” University of South Carolina international business professor Stanislav Markus recently told Vox of the deaths, suggesting they may not necessarily be linked to the Kremlin but could instead be linked to heightened pressure on dubious businesses amid economic uncertainty exacerbated by the war on Ukraine.” - (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2022/12/27/russian-sausage-tycoon-dies-by-suicide-in-hotel-fall-just-the-latest-russian-elite-including-putin-critics-to-die-mysteriously/?sh=2a7d0546299d )

Russian oligarchs leaping to their deaths is no laughing matter for their families. The brutal business of life in Russia is, perhaps, incomprehensible to most of us in the west. Life seems expendable and power abhors a vacuum. Killers may be roaming the globe with poisons and pushing motions perfected circa upstairs windows and balconies. Tapdance and tiptoe,The edge, the open window.Cut glass charisma,Every time one falls. ©HouseTherapy Read the full article

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The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.

Maganov is the latest of a number of high-profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances.

Investigating authorities said they were working at the scene to establish how he died. Tass news agency quoted sources saying he had fallen out of a sixth-floor window early on Thursday morning, adding later that he had taken his own life.

Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Lukoil board called for the conflict to end as soon as possible, expressing its sympathy to victims of "this tragedy".

Several Russian energy oligarchs have died in unusual circumstances in recent months:

The body of millionaire Novatek former manager Sergei Protosenya was found alongside his wife and daughter at a Spanish villa in April

A former vice-president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avayev, was found dead with his wife and daughter in their Moscow flat, also in April

In May, a former Lukoil tycoon Alexander Subbotin died of heart failure, reportedly after seeking alternative treatment from a shaman.

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AND THEY JUST HAPPENED TO CRITICIZE PUTIN? LMAO!

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Lukoil chairman dies in mysterious fall from Moscow hospital window

Look at the body language here. Putin's shoulders are squared, and he's turned mostly toward the camera, looking directly at it, as though he is presenting something to which he must devote at least part of his attention.

But, look at Maganov: His shoulders are slumped, his head forward, chin down. He is avoiding the eyes of everyone in the room. If he has just received the medal that's pinned to his chest, shouldn't he be proud?

Note how Putin's arm is positioned slightly behind Maganov's, as though he is herding Maganov physically. The position is a common one -- that of a dog owner holding a leash.

Side note: Why are Maganov's hands so red? And, isn't it cute how he and Putin seem to be dressed alike?

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Putin pals in peril.

September 19, 2022

Since the start of Russian president Vlad Putin's ill-considered attempt to conquer Ukraine, there's been a rash of mysterious deaths among his oligarch cronies (some pictured above along with the means of their demise). Between the pointless war losses and the sanctions imposed by the West that are slowly strangling the economy, it's not a stretch to imagine these ultra-wealthy businessmen turning against the Russian leader. And Putin, the ex-KBG officer, exacting his revenge.

Prominent among the war's critics has been Ravel Maganov, chairman of the giant Russian oil company, Lukoil. By a strange coincidence, Maganov was reported to have fallen out of a sixth-floor window at Moscow's Central Clinic Hospital earlier this month. And he wasn't the only high-level Russian businessman to expire under puzzling circumstances, either.

The day after Putin ordered troops into Ukraine in February, the body of Alexander Tyulakov, a senior executive at Gazprom, the natural gas monopoly, was discovered with a suicide note nearby. The next month, Russian businessman Vasily Melnikov was found stabbed to death, along with his wife and sons.  

In April, Sergei Protosenya, another Kremlin-linked gas tycoon, was found hanged at his Spanish residence. His wife and daughter were found dead in their beds from stab wounds. The next day, Vladislav Avayev, former vice-president at Gazprombank, was found shot dead in his Moscow penthouse. And in July, Yuri Voronov, CEO of Astra-Shipping, was found dead from gunshot wounds to the head and with a pistol next to the body.

The late Comrade Maganov wasn't the only casualty of gravity. In May, Andrei Krukovsky, another Gazprom manager, fell of a cliff in Sochi. Dan Rapoport, a Latvian-born Russian businessman and outspoken Putin critic, fell from his Washington, DC apartment in August. And only last week, the point man for developing the vast Russian-held resources in the Arctic, Ivan Pechorin, somehow managed to fall off his private yacht. Pechorin's body washed up 100 miles from Vladivostok.  

Even though a few of Putin's billionaire buddies are turning their ill-gotten rubles into cryptocurrency, the sanctions are causing them all to become squeezed financially. And no doubt some are using their Kremlin connections to lobby against the war. But, as the online news source TheStreet points out, anyone familiar with Putin "would likely know immediately that interfering with his ambitions could backfire." Perhaps lethally.

If all this reminds you of The Godfather where Michael Corleone coldly eliminates anyone he considers disloyal — even those closest to him — remember that Russia is basically a crime syndicate. With Putin as mob boss.

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“Ivan’s death is an irreparable loss for friends and colleagues, a great loss for the corporation. We offer our sincere condolences to family and friends,” it said.

According to Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti, the administration of Vladivostok said a body was found near the village of Beregovoe. Pechorin drowned on September 10 near Cape Ignatyev in Vladivostok, regional media reports.

Pechorin is at least the ninth prominent Russian businessmen to have reportedly died by suicide or in unexplained accidents since late January, with six of them associated with Russia’s two largest energy companies.

Four of those six were linked to the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom or one of its subsidiaries, while the other two were associated with Lukoil, Russia’s largest privately owned oil and gas company.

Earlier this year, the company took the unusual public stance of speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine, calling for sympathy for the victims, and for the end of the conflict.

Lukoil’s chairman Ravil Maganov died at the beginning of September after falling out of the window of a hospital in Moscow, according to Russian state news agency TASS.

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Another mysterious death among Russian top executives last week drew further attention to the ever-increasing number of suspicious demises among the oligarchs and critics of President Vladimir Putin, raising questions on whether they have become all too common to be completely coincidental.

Ivan Pechorin, a top manager at the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, was found dead in Vladivostok after allegedly falling off his luxury yacht and drowning near Cape Ignatyev in the Sea of Japan two days before, according to the local administration.

"On September 12, 2022, it became known about the tragic death of our colleague, Ivan Pechorin, Managing Director for the Aviation Industry of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic," a statement from the company said.

Pechorin is said to have been tasked with modernising Russia's aviation industry and worked directly under Putin.

Earlier this year, the company’s 43-year-old general director Igor Nosov also died from a reported stroke after taking over the reins in May 2021.

Meanwhile, another aviation expert died under strange circumstances: the former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute Anatoly Gerashchenko was pronounced dead after falling down "several sets of stairs" on Wednesday, according to a statement issued by the institute.

Geraschenko led the institute -- which closely collaborates with the Russian Ministry of Defence and has aided the development of the likes of MiG fighter jets -- until 2015, but it is believed to have remained in an advisory role since.

The Russian aviation industry has long been suspected of having direct ties with espionage.

In 2018, former deputy director of the Russian national air carrier Aeroflot Nikolai Glushkov -- who famously claimed that about one-fourth of the company's employees were officers of one of the branches of the country's intelligence -- was found hanged in his home in New Malden, London.

Glushkov was a notable Kremlin critic and a close friend of the late oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who was also found dead with a ligature around his neck in 2013. 

Glushkov's death also occurred right after the novichok poisoning of former GRU spy and double agent Alexei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, prompting the investigators to label it as suspicious.

The results of an inquest finalised in April 2021 showed that Glushkov was unlawfully killed, with his death made to look like a suicide by hanging.

'Tripped and fell while smoking'

The news of Pechorin's death came less than two weeks after the chairman of the board of Russia's largest private oil company, Ravil Maganov, died in what Russian news agencies cited as an accidental fall from a hospital window. 

Initially, a statement by his company Lukoil said Maganov “passed away after a severe illness” on 1 September but did not give further details.

Russian news reports later stated his body was found on the grounds of Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital, where Russia's political and business elite are often treated. 

Maganov appeared to have fallen from a sixth-story window, the reports said. Some sources claimed he tripped and fell while smoking, stating a pack of cigarettes was found by the window. The news site RBK also said police were investigating the possibility of suicide.

Lukoil was one of a few Russian companies to publicly call for an end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, calling in March for the “immediate cessation of the armed conflict”.

Incidentally, Maganov was not the first Lukoil official to die under suspicious circumstances since Kremlin's full-scale aggression against its western neighbour began in late February.

A former top manager Aleksandr Subbotin was found dead in the basement of a residence in a Moscow suburb in May. 

Russian news reports said the house belonged to a self-styled healer, Shaman Magua, who practised purification rites. 

Magua testified that Subbotin came to his house under the influence of alcohol and drugs and demanded that the healer, whose real name is Aleksei Pindurin, performs a healing ritual for hangover symptoms.

Investigators said the preliminary cause of Subbotin's death was determined to be heart failure.

Yet, it is Ravil Maganov's demise that caught the attention of the press, having been the most well-publicised in a string of accidental self-defenestrations and other suspicious deaths of those who either profited from good relations with Putin or were a thorn in his side -- or both.

Anti-war oligarchs die under strange circumstances

At least another eight Russian oligarchs have died in strange circumstances almost since the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine. All had in common close links to the Kremlin, immense wealth, a connection to Russian gas and an anti-war stance on Ukraine.

This has raised the suspicions of international investigators, who are beginning to believe that these deaths may, in fact, have been staged suicides or assassinations due to their stance on the Kremlin's aggression against Ukraine or their links to corruption in the Russian gas company Gazprom.

It all started in St Petersburg in the run-up to the war. 

Only a month before the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, a top executive of the gas company Gazprom was found dead in his cottage near St Petersburg. 

Leonid Shulman, 60, was found in the bathroom of the house with slashed wrists, local news reported, citing a source.

According to the police authorities, a suicide note was allegedly found next to his body, in which he recounted his suffering after a leg injury -- which Gazprom claimed caused him to take a leave of absence. 

The version has been questioned after the Warsaw Institue think tank stated that Shulman, who was the head of the transport service at Gazprom Invest, was involved in a possible corruption case at the Russian gas giant.

The morning after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, Alexander Tyulyakov, 65, a senior executive of Gazproms's Corporate Security, died at his home in the same village as Shulman. According to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, his body was found hanged in the garage.

The same newspaper quoted an unnamed law enforcement source as saying that Gazprom's own security unit arrived at the scene of the suicide at the same time as the police and was also investigating the death.

One of two deaths that have taken place abroad is that of Mikhail Watford, who lived with his family in the UK. On 28 February, the Ukrainian-born 66-year-old oil and gas magnate, who also built a property empire in London, was found dead at his home in Surrey.

Watford's cause of death was determined as death by hanging, but his wife and children, who were at home at the time, were unharmed. UK authorities were treating Watford's death as unexplained but not suspicious. 

It later emerged that Watford, commonly referred to as Misha, had changed his surname from Tolstosheya after moving to the UK in early 2000. 

Murder-suicides escalate suddenly among Putin-friendly oligarchs?

In March, the bodies of Russian billionaire Vasily Melnikov and his family were found in his luxury flat in Nizhny Novgorod, a city in western Russia. 

Melnikov had made his fortune working for one of the medical companies affected by Western sanctions.

According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant, Melnikov, along with his 41-year-old wife and two young children, aged 10 and 4 respectively, died of stab wounds. The murder weapon was allegedly found at the scene of the crime.

The newspaper reported that the oligarch had killed his family before committing suicide, although neighbours and other relatives disagreed with the official version.

Other media have claimed that Melnikov's company, which imports medical equipment to Russia, was on the verge of bankruptcy due to Western sanctions imposed in retaliation for the war in Ukraine.

The latest case has taken place in Spain, more specifically in Lloret de Mar, where Russian oligarch Sergei Protosenya, 55, was found dead along with two other family members on 19 April.

The former head of the gas giant Novatek, with a personal worth of €400 million, was found hanged, along with those of his wife and daughter, who were stabbed to death in the family villa.

What was initially classified by the police as a double homicide followed by Protosenya's suicide was later categorically denied by his son.

Several family friends have also come out in public to state that Protosenya is, in fact, the third victim of a "staged suicide" and that the oligarch would have been incapable of murdering his family.

The Catalan police are still actively investigating the case.

Just a day before the death of Protosenya and his family, the body of Russian oligarch Vladislav Avayev was found in his Moscow flat, along with the bodies of his wife and 13-year-old daughter. His daughter Anastasia, 26, was the one who discovered the crime scene.

Russian state-owned news agency TASS quoted a source close to law enforcement as saying that preliminary evidence pointed to Avayev -- former advisor to Putin and former vice-president of Gazprombank -- killing his wife and daughter and then committing suicide.

A pistol was found in the oligarch's hand, and the flat was locked from the inside.

Gazprombank is Russia's third-largest bank and is associated with Gazprom, the world's largest publicly traded natural gas company. 

Avayev was not the last Gazprom top-level manager to die under strange circumstances, however. 

On 2 May, Andrei Krukovsky, the 37-year-old director of a Sochi ski resort owned by the gas giant, died after allegedly falling off a cliff while hiking near the Achipse fortress, the scenic area's landmark monument.

“The general manager of the Krasnaya Polyana resort, Andrei Alekseevich Krukovsky, tragically passed away. He loved the mountains and found peace there,” TASS news agency reported.

The Krasnaya Polyana is one of the most popular ski venues in Russia and was a part of the Olympic complex during the 2014 Sochi Winter Games.

And on 4 July, multi-millionaire businessman Yuri Voronov was found in the swimming pool at his home in the affluent Vyborgsky neighbourhood of St Petersburg with a gunshot wound to his head.

The police retrieved a handgun at the scene, while bullet casings were found at the bottom of the pool, local media reported.

The 61-year-old Voronov, whose death was deemed to have been a suicide, was the CEO of Astra-Shipping transport and logistics company, a subcontractor to Gazprom with lucrative contracts tied to its operations in the Arctic.

Self-defenestrations the most suspicious

Maganov's death on Thursday also follows the pattern of prominent Russians falling out of windows to their deaths.

In October 2021, a Russian diplomat was found dead after he fell from a window of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Der Spiegel reported.

The unidentified man was a second secretary at the embassy, but German intelligence sources told the newspaper they suspected he was an undercover officer with Russia's FSB.

Investigative outlet Bellingcat said it used open-source data to identify the man as Kirill Zhalo, the son of General Alexey Zhalo, deputy director of the FSB's Second Service, responsible for dealing with internal political threats for the Kremlin.

In December of the same year, the founder of nationalist blog Sputnik and Pogrom Yegor Prosvirnin died after falling out of a window of a Moscow apartment building. 

Prosvirnin's naked body was found next to a knife and a gas canister after shouts and yelling were heard from his apartment, local media reported. 

Prosvirnin, a right-wing activist, originally supported Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 but later became a vocal critic of Putin, predicting a civil war in Russia and the collapse of the Russian Federation.

And on 14 August, Dan Rapoport, Latvian-American investment banker and outspoken Putin critic who had just left Ukraine after the Russian invasion, was found dead in front of a luxury apartment building in Washington DC.

Police say they were not treating Rapoport's death as suspicious, the Washington-based Politico reported, but the case remains under investigation.

Rapoport became rich while in Moscow before falling out of favour with the Kremlin, mostly due to his support for the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, according to reports.

In 2017, Rapoport's then-business partner, Sergei Tkachenko, also fell to his death from his Moscow apartment's window.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, at least four health care workers have fallen out of windows in Russia, with only one surviving despite grave injuries.

At least three incidents of doctors self-defenestrating from hospital windows took place over a two-week period between April and May 2020, with media reports claiming they had protested working conditions during the worst wave of infections in the country prior to the incidents.

In December 2020, a top Russian scientist developing a novel COVID-19 vaccine, Alexander Kagansky, was found dead after falling from his high-rise apartment in St Petersburg.

According to Russian outlets, police claimed Kagansky stabbed himself and then jumped to his death.

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A Russian sausage tycoon who criticized the invasion on Ukraine plunged to his death from a luxury hotel in India – three days after his friend lost his life on the same trip.

Pavel Antov, who was reportedly celebrating his upcoming 66th birthday, was found dead outside the Hotel Sai International in Rayagada, the UK’s Telegraph reported.

According to Russian state media, Antov, who was also a politician, died in a fall from his third-floor window at the swanky hotel.

His death on Sunday is the latest in a series of mysterious ones involving Russian tycoons since the start of strongman Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.

On Thursday, Antov’s friend Vladimir Bidenov also died at the same hotel after he was found lying unconscious in his rom surrounded by empty wine bottles, according to the news outlet.

Pavel Antov, 65, was found dead outside the Hotel Sai International in Rayagada.

The magnate’s death is the latest in a series of mysterious ones since the beginning of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.Getty Images

Police Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma said Bidenov suffered a stroke and that his pal “was depressed after his death and he too died,” the BBC reported.

Alexei Idamkin, the Russian consul in Kolkata, told the Tass news agency that investigators did not see a “criminal element in these tragic events,” according to the BBC.

“We are aware of the tragedy that happened in Odisha, where two of our citizens died. One of them is Pavel Antov, member of the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir Oblast,” the Russian embassy in India told local outlet NDTV.

“We are in constant contact with the relatives of the deceased as well as with local authorities. As far as we know, police do not yet see a criminal component in these tragic events,” it added.

A senior police official said Antov’s death appeared to be a case of suicide, news agency PTI reported.

The wealthy member of Putin’s United Russia party was chairman of the agriculture committee at the legislature in Russia’s Vladimir region, the Telegraph reported.

Antov was the founder of sausage producer Vladimir Standard and the country’s top-earning lawmaker, according to Russian Forbes, which put his annual income at almost $156 million.

In July, Antov slammed the Kremlin’s missile attacks on Kyiv as terrorism on WhatsApp, where he posted a story about a girl who had been pulled out of the rubble at her demolished home.

“It’s extremely difficult to call all this anything but terror,” he wrote.

Antov quickly apologized for the message, saying it had been posted by someone else and that he was “a supporter of the president and my country’s patriot” and “shared the goals” of the invasion.

Several Russian magnates have died in strange circumstances since the invasion began.

In September, the head of Russia’s oil giant Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, reportedly fell from a hospital window in Moscow.

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Here are the Russian oil executives who have died in the past nine months

Here are the Russian oil executives who have died in the past nine months

The death of a top Russian oil executive this week is the latest in a string of oil executives in the country who have reportedly died from suicide or in accidents this year.  Russian media outlets reported that Ravil Maganov, the chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company, died on Thursday after falling out of a window at a hospital where he was being treated. TASS,…

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Here are the Russian oil executives who have died in the past nine months

Here are the Russian oil executives who have died in the past nine months

The death of a top Russian oil executive this week is the latest in a string of oil executives in the country who have reportedly died from suicide or in accidents this year.  Russian media outlets reported that Ravil Maganov, the chairman of the board of Lukoil, Russia’s largest private oil company, died on Thursday after falling out of a window at a hospital where he was being treated. TASS,…