The full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been an unusually dangerous time for Russian officials and senior executives responsible for state and private oil and gas companies. Death has claimed top managers at corporations such as Gazprom, Lukoil, and Transneft. On July 7, Transportation Minister Roman Starovoit reportedly shot himself in his car hours after Vladimir Putin dismissed him by executive order. Starovoit joins a long list of officials and executives whose deaths have been ruled suicides by authorities. Meduza reviews the reports about these deaths.
Let’s not jump to conclusions.
Surely, there are other countries out there with just a smidge over four executives falling out of windows to their deaths per year.