Then they would have an unusual amount of people 'jumping' off the roof instead.they really need to make the windows in tall Russian buildings un-openable.
Then they would have an unusual amount of people 'jumping' off the roof instead.they really need to make the windows in tall Russian buildings un-openable.
What's the current count?March 2007 - Moscow
Ivan Safronov, who was investigating the sale of Russian arms to Iran and Syria, died after falling from a fifth-floor window. It was ruled a suicide.
The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/seventh-putin-pal-dies-months-27974708Seventh Putin pal dies in months after 'mysterious plunge from boat'
Another high-ranking Russian industrialist has died following an unexplained accident.
Ivan Pechorin, hand-picked by leader Vladimir Putin to head up the development of natural resources in Russia ’s Arctic territories, apparently fell overboard while sailing his private yacht off the country’s Pacific coast. ...
Pechorin, 39, is the latest senior official linked to Russia’s energy sector and the Kremlin to die in suspicious circumstances. ...
He reportedly fell off the side of a boat in the waters close to Russky Island near Cape Ignatiev, said Komsomolskaya Pravda.
His body was found after a search lasting more than a day.
Are you suggesting that some of the budget was siphoned off into (ahem) 'private accounts' and when they showed Putin the tanks that they were just cardboard-cut-outs of tanks?only to find that the maintenance budget seems to have been a few rouble's short.
Of Salisbury Cathedral?Surely not jumping……far more likely to be tripping or possibly stumbling over the edge of a tall building whilst admiring the view!
Well, 'received wisdom' up until the invasion - including Western thought - was that Russia had superiority in materiel as well as in numbers. Yup, they have the cannon fodder ... er ... population to throw into battle, but it looks like the logistics is thin on the ground and the actual doctrine is woeful concerning use of combined forces.Are you suggesting that some of the budget was siphoned off into (ahem) 'private accounts' and when they showed Putin the tanks that they were just cardboard-cut-outs of tanks?
Has anyone researched to see if Russia has a greater gravitational pull than other countries? I mean it is the largest country after all.
Flat Earth forums?
…logistics is thin on the ground…doctrine is woeful…tanks that look okay in a parade…
That's a lot of firepower, especially as it only lists confirmed losses; the actual figure will be much higher.Amen.
As of 0740 / 14.9.22, Russia has lost (destroyed, captured, abandoned) 1,112 tanks according to the authoritative Oryx blog.
maximus otter
Amen.
As of 0740 / 14.9.22, Russia has lost (destroyed, captured, abandoned) 1,112 tanks according to the authoritative Oryx blog.
maximus otter
Russian businessman Ivan Pechorin, the top manager for the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, has been found dead in Vladivostok, the latest in a string of mysterious deaths among Russian executives.
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.
FULL STORY: https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...o-falls-to-his-death-in-latest-plunge-mysteryEx-Putin Ally Plunges to His Death ‘From a Great Height’ at Moscow Aviation Institute
An aviation expert has become the latest Russian official to fall to his death in mysterious circumstances.
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.”
Russian news outlet Izvestia, citing an unnamed source, reported that Gerashchenko “fell from a great height” and careened down several flights of stairs. He was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene. ...
A senior aviation expert and former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute has died from a mysterious fall within the institute's headquarters building. The fall seems to have involved tumbling down multiple flights of stairs.
FULL STORY: https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...o-falls-to-his-death-in-latest-plunge-mystery
Nope. Not me. No way. I hate spreadsheets. Nothing to see here.My baby Jesus, these people are clumsy. Is anyone here keeping a spreadsheet on who, organizational affiliation, when, how, etc.?
Clearly wasn't much of an aviation expert then.A senior aviation expert
Clearly wasn't much of an aviation expert then.
FULL STORY: https://www.vox.com/world/2022/10/1...putin-mysterious-deaths-windows?ICID=ref_farkRussian businessmen keep dying. No one knows why.
It’s a rough year to be a high-profile Russian: After nearly eight months of war in Ukraine, the Russian military is reeling and on its back foot; sanctions continue to squeeze the country’s economy and elite — and at least 15 Russian businessmen and executives have died in apparent accidents or by suicide, including a number of Putin allies.
The victims range from an executive with Gazprom, a major state-owned oil company, to the managing director of a state-run development corporation. The causes of death range from unremarkable — a stroke, for example — to lurid, such as death by toad poison in a shaman’s basement.
Combined, the sheer number of deaths, as well as the prominence of the dead and a long history of suspicious demises in Putin’s Russia, have raised questions about whether something other than ordinary bad luck is at fault.
According to Stanislav Markus, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina business school and author of Property, Predation, and Protection: Piranha Capitalism in Russia and Ukraine, it’s a near certainty. “We can almost certainly rule out the official explanation of the deaths as suicides or poor health,” Markus told me via email. He’s not alone; theories vary — and generally don’t feature some grand conspiracy by the Kremlin — but a number of Russia experts see “more than just randomness” in the deaths, as Syracuse University professor Brian Taylor, who specializes in Russian politics and is the author of The Code of Putinism, put it to me in an interview. ...
In several cases, the family and friends of the dead have already raised questions about their deaths, or rejected official conclusions of suicide. ...
There’s something to these suspicions — political assassinations, after all, aren’t exactly unusual in Russia. ...
As recently as two years ago, Alex Ward highlighted a similar trend in a different sector of Russian society in a story for Vox: coronavirus doctors dying after falling from high windows early in the pandemic. Those deaths were equally unexplained, but as Ward wrote at the time, murder “may not be completely out of the question.”
That ambiguity is a common theme around deaths in Russia; though there is rarely clear-cut evidence, questions surrounding the deaths of Putin critics stretch back nearly two decades. ...
“The number of [deaths] seems higher than random chance would suggest, but that doesn’t mean that it’s all part of the same story,” Taylor said. “Some of them really could be suicides or accidents. Some of them could be murders.” ...
Additionally, according to Peter Rutland, a Russia expert and professor of government at Wesleyan University, Russia’s system, and perhaps especially its business community, is under substantial pressure due to the war. ...
That leaves a third theory, one that both Taylor and Rutland indicate is far more likely than either a Kremlin-directed campaign of assassinations or a spate of genuine accidents and suicides.
Specifically, the recent run of deaths among Russia’s business elite could well be disguised killings — but the killings may be a product of Russia’s tangled political and economic structures, which are newly under pressure from Russia’s war in Ukraine, more than of any specific, overarching agenda. ...