The list of representatives of the Russian nomenclature who died under at least mysterious circumstances in recent years is growing. This time it was the turn of 46-year-old Vladimir Yegorov, deputy of President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party in the Duma of the Siberian city of Tobolsk. Major Russian media reported that police had not yet determined the cause of death.
“There are no external signs of violence” on the body, investigators told Kommersant. However, the Tobolsk City Duma published an obituary stating that Yegorov died “as a result of an accident.” In the same text, his Duma also praised him for providing “comprehensive support” to the participants in the special military operation and the families of soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
According to numerous international media outlets, citing the Telegram channel of the Russian media channel Baza, which has ties to the Russian security services, Yegorov fell from a window of his home on the third floor of a building in Tobollsk. His body was found “on Wednesday in the courtyard of his house on Kedrovaya Street.” According to newspaper 72, citing an unnamed source, “one of the most likely reasons” for his death could be “heart problems.”
Some people immediately noticed that in Russia people often refer to deaths under suspicious circumstances as “heart problems”. Certainly the grim list of suspicious deaths is now really long. To name just a few cases: The most recent case concerns Anna Tsavera, 35 years old, deputy editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, a tabloid that, according to various sources, is highly valued by Putin. At the beginning of December she was found dead by her parents in her Moscow apartment. According to police, no signs of violent death were found.
Their boss, Vladimir Sungorkin, 68, also died suddenly during a business trip in September 2022. The most high-profile case, however, is probably that of the late Ravil Maganov, president of Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil and gas company, on September 1 last year, after he fell from the window of a Moscow hospital. Shortly before, he had spoken out against the war in Ukraine.
Sausage magnate and former lawmaker Pavel Antov, himself a member of Putin's party, was also targeted for an anti-war post published on WhatsApp, which he dismissed, saying it was an “unfortunate misunderstanding and a technical error.” He died in India on December 24 last year when he fell from the third floor of his hotel.
And again last June, Kristina Baikova, 28 years old, charming vice president of Loko Bank, died when she fell from the window of her eleventh-floor apartment on Khodynsky Boulevard in Moscow. If three clues prove it, as Agata Christie wrote, many deaths in mysterious circumstances that have yet to be clarified at least give us something to think about.
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