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Yet another strange death!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-reporter-maxim-borodin-dies-000422289.html
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 Borodins 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 Borodins 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 hed reported on a controversial movie about Tsar Nicholas II.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)BoneyardDem
(1,202 posts)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?
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Perhaps Putin suggested it when they met in Prague.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)They always seem to be having accidents like this!
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)peggysue2
(10,833 posts)"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)Don't want him getting any ideas about Rachel, Lawrence, Joy, Ari, etc.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)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.