Russian Oil Boss ‘Falls From Window’

[FatticusInch]

as you do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62750584

Happening s lot lately, according to the link.

[choux]

I just read that item, Fatticus. We don't need Einstein do we?

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps the window catches to stop these accidents are in short supply due to sanctions. It's our fault.

[choux]

It was a hospital window...

[Hopkirk]

The men in white coats tried to stop him.

[Ellipsis]

Cause of death: defenestration

[albaqwerty]

Ooh Ellipsis, that was paneful

[FatticusInch]

Ellipsis
//Cause of death: defenestration//

……one could argue that it was altitude sickness?

[Peter Pedant]

famous convenient defenestration's
Jan Masaryk Prague 1948

1618 still Prague, reader - start of the Thirty Years war 1618-48 as a result of Imperial Ambassadors being frown artta the windows of Hradny Castle ( onto a dung heap thank Gott).

two before - 1419, 1483

just you know saying

( hey shades of episode 1 Ozark - they geddit on camera tho')

[jno]

so... what's going on?

[Ellipsis]

Well ...

> Several Russian energy oligarchs have died in unusual circumstances in recent months:
> * The body of millionaire Novatek former manager Sergei Protosenya was found alongside his wife and daughter at a Spanish villa in April
> * A former vice-president of Gazprombank, Vladislav Avayev, was found dead with his wife and daughter in their Moscow flat, also in April
> * In May, a former Lukoil tycoon Alexander Subbotin died of heart failure, reportedly after seeking alternative treatment from a shaman.

And now ...

> The chairman of Russia's Lukoil oil giant, Ravil Maganov, has died after falling from a hospital window in Moscow.

[jno]

if that was an answer to me, Ellipsis, I'm just wondering why.

[Ellipsis]

It would seem that many energy oligarchs disagree with the Ukrainian special military operation and also, coincidentally, many energy oligarchs are dying in an unusually short space of time in unusually odd circumstances.

Correlation is not causation, however ...

[jno]

if oligarchs have in some way been disrupting the special military operation, I could see the point. But if they've been gong along with it, however reluctantly, what's the advantage in defenestration? Pour encourager les autres?

[FatticusInch]

jno
//if that was an answer to me, Ellipsis, I'm just wondering why.//

Anti-war stance/questioning allegedly.

[Ellipsis]

> Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Lukoil board called for the conflict to end as soon as possible, expressing its sympathy to victims of "this tragedy".
> Its billionaire president, Vagit Alekperov, resigned in April after the UK imposed sanctions on him in response to the invasion.

[jno]

Putin also wanted the conflict to end asap. There doesn't seem to me to be much actual reason to scapegoat Lukoil or energy companies generally, the more so if they all have to be replaced by someone better. But I suppose he's flailing around, doing in Moscow what he used to do in Salisbury.

[fender62]

russian people must know somethings odd about all these oligarch deaths, probably afraid incase they become suicides themselves, imagine this happening in a western democracy, people question without a doubt, goes to show how putin deals with dissent or question..

[sevenOP]

A true ' representative democracy' would have the determination to get to the bottom of this e.g.

“no matter what my German voters think” - German Foreign Minister

https://twitter.com/JHillje/status/1565294289453735938

[DTCwordfan]

there will be more in the pipeline to come - when is someone going to drill Putain.

[Ellipsis]

> Putin also wanted the conflict to end asap.

Hmm, not with the same outcome, I think. Anyway, the true difference is he could end it, any time he likes ...