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The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow, reports say.
Maganov, 67, was being treated at the city's Central Clinical Hospital and died from his injuries, sources told Russian media.
He is the latest of a number of high-profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances.
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, Lukoil called for the war to end.
Early in March, the Lukoil board called for the conflict in Ukraine to end as soon as possible, expressing its sympathy to victims of "this tragedy".
Ravil Maganov took over as chairman of Lukoil's board two years ago. He began working for the private oil company in 1993.
In May a former senior manager at Lukoil, Alexander Subbotin, reportedly died also under unusual circumstances.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62750584
Putin doing what Donald dreams of doing.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,173 posts)Windowitis.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,815 posts)bdamomma
(63,836 posts)Russian windows need better latches.
Ray Bruns
(4,093 posts)Out of windows
Takket
(21,560 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,918 posts)They want the public to know who did the murder.
DFW
(54,349 posts)Just 2 weeks ago. Look him up.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11119333/Anti-Putin-businessman-mysteriously-dead-Washington-DC.html
Scrivener7
(50,949 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,546 posts)He had headphones on? Why would he kill himself wearing headphones? It's like he was ambushed when he had his earbuds in, grabbed from the rear and tossed out the window. Quick as a blink of the eye.
niyad
(113,259 posts)house to jarvanka after the 2016 election, though.
"Any fool can commit murder. It takes a true artist to stage a suicide."
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)what a story, he sold his house to Ivanka and Jared??? Weird.
Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)gab13by13
(21,304 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,971 posts)Thats the horror of the documents Trump has. Without knowing what he has sold or shared, the intelligence agencies have to assume he has compromised their operations severely.
Walleye
(31,008 posts)JHB
(37,158 posts)Though for something a little more Russian, maybe "Obyazannost' " ("liability" ).
nuxvomica
(12,421 posts)We may never know the full extent of TFG's treachery.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)But I guess TFG doesn't connect the events. We know he doesn't care.
OnDoutside
(19,953 posts)gibraltar72
(7,503 posts)I mean what are the chances??
jaxexpat
(6,818 posts)Those oligarchs are sooooo clumsy.
gab13by13
(21,304 posts)bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)lpbk2713
(42,753 posts)...
ToxMarz
(2,166 posts)Marthe48
(16,935 posts)over and over and over.
(future news story?) (and sarcasm)
rubbersole
(6,685 posts)Lots of them.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)defenestrates yet another.
his penchant for this form of death, or poison, is what made me unsure whether the recent car bombing was at his behest.
gab13by13
(21,304 posts)Ukraine had nothing to gain by that murder.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)i don't know who dunnit. i just don't have the conviction that it was putin the way i do with this guy.
NBachers
(17,103 posts)gab13by13
(21,304 posts)choie
(4,111 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)He needs to employ some new mystery writers to come up with better ways to murder his enemies. This is just boring.
luvtheGWN
(1,336 posts)but, more to the point, it serves as a warning to others who disagree with Putin -- and especially those who disagree publicly.
Mike_in_LA
(186 posts)Window cancer to their site
oswaldactedalone
(3,490 posts)seems to have a deadly virus.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)I will never believe Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
Me too. There are no "coincidences" in his death.
Jeffrey knew too much, had to dispose of him.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,236 posts)Mr. Sparkle
(2,932 posts)this was another hit, sanctioned by the Russian government
3Hotdogs
(12,372 posts)the floors and the floors get slippery.
LiberalFighter
(50,888 posts)FelineOverlord
(3,574 posts)Emile
(22,669 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,306 posts)Baza, a Russian news site with close ties to the police, suggested he may have slipped from a balcony while smoking.
Half a dozen businesspeople with ties to the Russian energy industry have died in apparent suicides or in mysterious circumstances since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. None of the deaths have been classified as murders.
Maganovs death has attracted scrutiny because Lukoil was rare among Russian energy companies in criticising the invasion of Ukraine, publicly calling for a ceasefire just one week after Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of Moscows special military operation.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/russian-oil-executive-dies-in-fall-from-moscow-hospital-window
LeftInTX
(25,258 posts)I've never heard of a hospital smoking balcony. The closest we had was the hospital's roof helicopter pad.
But then Russia is still in the 1950s...
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)You never know when you'll just fall out!
Recursion
(56,582 posts)As winter approaches, they increase their predation to fatten up
Hassler
(3,376 posts)One story buildings will end this epidemic of people falling out of windows.
moondust
(19,972 posts)on a toothpick.