Deaths under mysterious circumstances among Russia’s elite have been on the rise since Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Now the former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute, Anatoly Gerashchenko, died after falling down the stairs.
Members of Russia’s elite have died inexplicably at a striking rate in recent months. Influential people from politics and business were affected. And it doesn’t seem to be breaking.
Recently, the former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), Anatoly Gerashchenko, died under mysterious circumstances. As the Russian news agency reports, 73-year-old Gerashchenko died in an accident. according to the scientist is said to have fallen from a staircase, suffering fatal injuries.
The MAI is responsible for the development of aerospace technology in Russia and is closely linked to the Russian Ministry of Defense. Drones, for example, are being developed at the institute.
Deaths in Russia: falls from windows, extended suicides
Gerashchenko had received several awards from the Russian government, including the “Merits to the Fatherland” medal, as reported.
Gerashchenko’s death joins a list of other deaths in Russia. As reported, Vladimir Sungorkin, editor-in-chief of the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, died a week ago. According to the Russian news agency Tass, the man, who is considered a top propagandist, died of a stroke at the age of 68. Komsomolskaya Pravda is the Kremlin’s mouthpiece.
Other deaths include:
- Ivan Peshorin, head of the Russian Society for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic. He was responsible for developing mineral resources in the Arctic. According to media reports, he fell from his moving private yacht.
- Ravil Maganov, CEO of oil giant Lukoil, who died in early September. According to Russian media reports, he fell out of a hospital window when he tripped while smoking. In March, Lukoil publicly advocated an end to the war in Ukraine.
- Dan Rapoport fell outside his Washington home in August. The Latvian-American entrepreneur was a well-known critic of Putin.
- The billionaire and ex-CEO at Lukoil, Alexander Subbotin, died in May. He was found dead in the Moscow apartment of a “shaman”; allegedly he died of a failed attempt to cure alcoholism.
- A few days before Subbotin, the head of Gazprom’s Krasnaya Polyana ski resort, Andrei Krukovsky, died. He fell while hiking in a mountain.
- Sergei Protosenya, a manager at Russian energy company Novatek, hanged himself at his holiday home in Lloret de Mar, Spain, in April. His wife and daughter were found with fatal stab wounds. Investigators are assuming an extended suicide.
- A day earlier, the body of Vladislav Avayev, former vice president of Gazprombank, was found. He was found with his wife and daughter in an apartment in Moscow with gunshot wounds. Here, too, there is talk of extended suicide, but there are doubts.
- At the end of March, Vasily Melnikov, owner of a Russian drug company, was found dead. Here too his wife and children were killed; one assumes extended suicide.
- Russian oligarch Mikhail Watford was found hanged in his Surrey villa in late February.
- A day after the Russian war of aggression began, on February 25, the body of Deputy Director General of Gazprom Alexander Tyulyakov was found. According to media reports, he hanged himself.
- At the end of January, Gazprom manager Leonid Shulman was found dead in a country house. Here, too, the authorities assume suicide.
Relatives doubt the extended suicides. Sergei Protosenya’s son told the British newspaper “Daily Mail” that he believes his family members were murdered. “My father is not a murderer,” said Fedor Protosenya. “He could never harm them. I don’t know what happened that night, but I know my father didn’t hurt them.”
doubts about suicide
As reported, no farewell letter was found and no traces of blood were found on Sergei Protosenya’s clothing, although his wife and daughter were covered in blood.
Doubts were also raised in the Avayev case. Igor Volobuyev, also a former vice-president of Gazprombank, said in an interview with the Ukrainian news site: “It’s hard to believe that Avayev shot his 13-year-old daughter and his wife and committed suicide. In my opinion, this is a staged suicide. “
Sources: Ria Novosti, “Vice”, ZDF, Telegram channel 112, “Liga”, “Daily Mail”
Source: Stern
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