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RKP5637

(67,111 posts)
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:36 PM Apr 2018

Russian Reporter Maxim Borodin Dies After Mysterious Balcony Fall

Yet another strange death!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-reporter-maxim-borodin-dies-000422289.html

A journalist who had been investigating the deaths of alleged Russian mercenaries in Syria died in a hospital on Sunday after falling from his balcony in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg.

Maxim Borodin, a 32-year-old reporter for the Yekaterinburg-based Ria Novy Den news agency, was known for his coverage of high-profile corruption and criminal cases. He fell from his fifth-floor balcony on Thursday, The New York Times reported, and neighbors found him critically injured at the foot of the building. He was rushed to the hospital, where he died from his injuries three days later.

A spokesman for the interior ministry for the Sverdlovsk region told CNN that Borodin’s apartment was found locked from the inside, suggesting that “no one exited the apartment and most likely there were no strangers in there” at the time of his fall.

Local investigators said they were considering several possible causes of death but that no crime was suspected at this time, the BBC reported.

Some of Borodin’s friends and colleagues, however, have expressed skepticism at this assessment. One friend, Paulina Andreevna, said in a Facebook post that Borodin had been hospitalized earlier this month after a stranger attacked him outside his home. Last October, an assailant reportedly hit Borodin over the head with a steel pipe shortly after he’d reported on a controversial movie about Tsar Nicholas II.
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BoneyardDem

(1,202 posts)
5. Seriously....so many fall from upper floor balconies
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:49 PM
Apr 2018

Does a large portion of the Russian Population have inner ear, or some other sort of balance problems?

Putin thinks these are all under the radar.

Oh and BTW, let's not forget that Cohen said he would do this very same thing for Trump. Weird, don't you think?

peggysue2

(10,833 posts)
7. Garry Kasparov's quote:
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 02:55 PM
Apr 2018

"The one law that still operates in Putin's Russia is gravity.'

Amazing how many Putin critics fall out of windows, shoot themselves in the back of the head or beat their heads in with baseball bats. These fatalities exclude the unfortunates who are gunned down in public or die of mysterious diseases (poison) at home, abroad or in prison.

One might conclude that Putin's reach is long, vindictive and usually fatal. Yet still, we have Putin apologists, admirers and defenders.

Go figure

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
9. Let's keep this hidden from IQ45.
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:50 PM
Apr 2018

Don't want him getting any ideas about Rachel, Lawrence, Joy, Ari, etc.

anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
12. Watch Wormwood, great Netflix show. It was explicitly stated by the CIA (and Im sure the KGB
Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:33 PM
Apr 2018

as well) that falls from high places (multistoried buildings) are a great way to get rid of troublemakers without an obvious “homicide” aspect. Wormwood is a documentary about a US scientist and CIA employee, Frank Olson, who protested a top-secret program and then died after “falling” from his balcony in a hotel room in 1953. These incidents w/Russian journalists are pretty obviously homicides (honestly how many times can something like this just happen?) and warnings to those who dare to question Poot.

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