I've long found the assassination game in Russia fascinating. It's crazy to me that a developed country has this tactic as part of it's political and business culture. POLITICS Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov is the 8th Russian energy executive to die suddenly this year PUBLISHED THU, SEP 1 20225:02 PM EDTUPDATED 4 HOURS AGO Christina Wilkie@CHRISTINAWILKIE SHARE KEY POINTS Ravil Maganov, chairman of the Russian oil giant Lukoil, died Thursday after falling out of the window of the capital’s Central Clinical Hospital, according to the Russian state-sponsored news outlet Interfax. Maganov’s untimely death appears to mark the eighth time this year that a Russian energy executive has died suddenly under unusual circumstances. The Russian embassy in Washington did not respond to a request from CNBC for an official statement. Russian President Vladimir Putin stands next to First Executive Vice President of oil producer Lukoil Ravil Maganov after decorating him with the Order of Alexander Nevsky during an awarding ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, November 21, 2019. Mikhail Klimentyev | Kremlin | Sputnik | via Reuters WASHINGTON — The death of Ravil Maganov, chairman of the Russian oil giant Lukoil, at a hospital in Moscow on Thursday appears to mark the eighth time this year that a Russian energy executive has died suddenly and under unusual circumstances. Maganov died after falling out of the window of the capital’s Central Clinical Hospital, according to the Russian state-sponsored news outlet Interfax. The circumstances of Maganov’s death were confirmed by Reuters, citing two anonymous sources. The oil firm, and its chairman, had been critical of the Ukraine war, expressing disapproval in a statement on March 3. But Lukoil, the company that Maganov helped to build, said the 67 year old had “passed away following a serious illness” in a press statement. The Russian embassy in Washington did not respond to a request from CNBC for an official statement. The circumstances surrounding Maganov’s sudden death have drawn international attention, in part, because seven other top Russian energy executives have been victims of untimely deaths since January, according to reports by Russian and international news agencies. Below is a list of these cases, in chronological order. In late January, Leonid Shulman, a top executive at the Russian natural gas giant Gazprom, was found dead in the bathroom of a cottage in the village of Leninsky. The Russian media group RBC reported his death, but did not cite a cause. On Feb. 25, another Gazprom executive, Alexander Tyulakov, was found dead in the same village as Shulman, this time in a garage. According to the Russian media outlet Novaya Gazeta, investigators found a note near Tyulakov’s body. On Feb. 28, three days after Tyulakov died, a Russian oil and gas billionaire living in England, Mikhail Watford, was found hanged in the garage of his country estate. At the time, investigators reportedly said Watford’s death was “unexplained,” but did not appear suspicious. On April 18, a former vice president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avayev, was found dead in his Moscow apartment, alongside his wife and daughter, who also died. Authorities treated the case as a murder-suicide, Radio Free Europe reported at the time. Gazprombank is Russia’s third largest bank and has close ties to the energy sector. On April 19, a former deputy chairman of Novatek, Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas producer, was found dead in a vacation home in Spain. Like Avayev in Moscow, Sergei Protosenya was found with his wife and daughter, who were also deceased. And like Avayev, police investigating the scene said they believed it was a murder-suicide, a theory that Avayev’s surviving son has publicly rejected. In May, the body of billionaire and former Lukoil executive Alexander Subbotin was discovered in the basement of a country house in the Moscow region. The room where Subbotin died was allegedly used for “Jamaican voodoo rituals,” the Russian state media outlet TASS reported, quoting local authorities. In July, Yury Voronov, the CEO and founder of a shipping contractor that services Gazprom’s Arctic projects was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound in a swimming pool at his home in Leninsky, the same elite St. Petersburg gated community where Shulman and Tyulakov died earlier in the year. CNBC Politics
Yea, I am not buying the story that the guy earlier this week fell out of a 6th floor window of a hospital, they couldn't spin that any better Putin dont mess around, thats why he and orange man like each other.................trump is so jealous, he wished he could off his opponents this easily
de·fen·es·tra·tion /dēˌfenəˈstrāSHən/ noun 1. FORMAL•HUMOROUS the action of throwing someone out of a window. "death by defenestration has a venerable history" 2. INFORMAL the action of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority. "that victory resulted in Churchill's own defenestration by the war-weary British electorate"
There is a vocal group that is convinced that Pootie-Poot was responsible for the bombing that missed Dugan and killed his daughter. Apparently he's been a very vocal critic of the War in Ukraine (he thinks they aren't commiting genocide hard enough and need to try harder). It's all circumstantial but it does make sense to me - he's kind of a random target for Ukraine and he has apparently been vocal in criticizing Putin - for Ukraine he would be more of a "figurehead" target, more than a target that would hurt Russia, while for Russia, anybody prominant that criticizes Putin needs a very public slap-down. I think it's at least reasonable and prudent to remain open to the idea that Dugan's daughter belongs on this list.
If this was a movie you would say this is a bit over the top. So now we know why Putin is still in charge, he just kills everybody.
This is why authoritarian regimes usually crash and burn fairly quickly. If you keep rewarding loyalty over competence, you end up with incompetence. It's how Trump ends up with guys like Giuliani giving him advice. How long can Putin last until he gets car bombed or hung from a lamp post.
...unless it's the Donald. ...then, old Vlad doesn't mind playing footsie under the table or a little PDA, planting wet ones all over each other's faces and passing each other notes for their secret rendezvous...
Ex-Putin Ally Plunges to His Death ‘From a Great Height’ at Moscow Aviation Institute Dan Ladden-Hall - 2h ago React43 Comments| An aviation expert has become the latest Russian official to fall to his death in mysterious circumstances. MAI/Handout© Provided by The Daily Beast Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former head of Moscow’s Aviation Institute (MAI), died in a mysterious fall inside the institute’s headquarters in the Russian capital on Tuesday. The organization’s press office released a statement describing the 73-year-old’s death as “the result of an accident,” adding that his untimely demise was a “a colossal loss for the MAI and the scientific and pedagogical community.”
As I mentioned before in the Ukraine thread iirc, I'd be living the oligarch life out in a remote 1-story dacha with plenty of well-paid armed security and a fortified perimeter.
"from the stairs"? Google translate error? The nastiness of Putin is plain for all the see, and some just eat it up.
