Originally published at: Russian oil executive found dead after ‘fall’ from high window
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As Anatoly Rybakov attributed to Stalin:
Death solves all problems — no man, no problem.
A Russian autocrat’s life is all about solving problems.
What was that you were saying about the war, Mikhail?
It also might be that he was skimming. It takes an insane level of greed to try and cheat a gangster like Vova, but these are Russian beeznusmen we’re discussing.
This part of the story is a nice touch:
his body was discovered by an agent of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, who was walking the dog of a senior spymaster in the building’s courtyard on Saturday morning.
I’ll bet the dog helped out upstairs too.
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I lost count here somewhere around Christmas 2022.
From the Wikipedia article:
27 entries with a total of 34 dead in 2022.
25 entries with a total of 33 dead in 2023. One entry was a plane crash that killed 10, 3 of whom were on the list.
10 entries with a total of 11 dead so far in 2024.
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A glaring safety problem in Russia that really needs to be addressed, seems like people fall out of windows all the time.
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Never use stairs or elevators - problem solved?
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What is it with influential Russians and their allergy to gravity?
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“Plane crash” is stretching it a bit (as, I guess, is “fell”), because the principal victim of that incident was Yevgeny Prigozhin, who made the mistake of violating Montgomery’s Rule One of Warfare, or perhaps of stopping too soon. I believe the final “official” explanation was that P. and friends were drunk and playing with a grenade in the cabin, the way one does.
I guess the windows on his bizjet were so small that even the defenestration specialists at the FSB realized that it might strain credulity to have him fall out of one of those.
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The verdict is suicide: “the man suffered from cancer,” added Tass’s source.
“We made certain that he did.”
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1st floor rooms very popular in Russian hotels these days.
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I’m sure even someone who lived in a basement would be “found to have fallen to their death from a window”.
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It’s not just Russians. Defenestration has been a popular method of execution in Europe since about 1419. By 1618, they’d even coined a word for it, which is how we got defenestration.
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You’d think the country would be smothered in bungalows by now.
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Did he land on a bullet after his fall out the window?
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I tried like hell to find an old meme of rootin’ tootin’ vladi putin with shrub jr, and I really wish I’d found it. They were somewhere in Central Asia, given the silk brocade del-like garments they wore. The evil weasel was saying something to shrub that amused him.
The meme-maker, obvs a Brit, had placed this caption above vladi’s smug phisog:
“I could murder a Russian.”
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I think the Russian gov would prefer to classify that as Spontaneous Onset Lead Poisoning
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What problem? Defenestrations are going down!
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That’s ok, a Russian air commander recently had an unfortunate home improvement accident after meeting some Ukrainian intelligence agents carrying a hammer.
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Surely “allergy to the ground?”:
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Gravity never sleeps…
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