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.

[sevenOP]

jno : " But I suppose he's flailing around, doing in Moscow what he used to do in Salisbury."

More ‘Doorknobichok' ?

[roadman]

russia needs better health and saftey

[jno]

something like that, sevenOP

[ichkeria]

"I suppose he's flailing around, doing in Moscow what he used to do in Salisbury."

Or what actually he has been doing in Russia for years, as far as anyone can tell.
He probably bumped off his mentor Anatoly Sobchak, the mayor of St Petersburg.
On the other hand, maybe the windows, balconies, etc are just very badly designed.

[Togo]

Nearly as dangerous being "friends" with Putin as it is being friends with the Clintons.

[davebro]

probably just a bad translation of the word "fall"

[lady-janine]

How many of you think it is a good idea to express your own opinions and not Putin's?

[davebro]

^^^^^ maybe we could have a poll on that?

[Peter Pedant]

crossing Putin obviously
leads to a - - - falling out

[drmorgans]

And to think the West thought it could do business with the former KGB boss Putin

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah foo ! the whole ost-politik ( politics with the East) was that there was this huge country to the east of Germany so Merkel et al had to get on with them and do things like trade

Her epitaph for herself was: I have been wrong for 20 y

[jno]

nah, not really, she was right for 19 years and wrong for one, which is more than most statespersons can say. She could have kicked up a fuss over the Crimea years back, which might have made Putin think twice about further expansionism. But Germany wasn't exactly the only country that didn't.

[bookbinder]

Latest information on the death of Ravil Maganov:
https://www.ibtimes.sg/ravil-maganov-russian-oil-chief-was-beaten-killed-after-putins-approval-say-kremlin-insiders-66567

[sevenOP]

"Yeah foo ! the whole ost-politik ( politics with the East [Germany!]) was that there was this huge country to the east of Germany so Merkel et al "

Merkel was 16 years of age when Willy Brandt was carrying on his vision of Ostpolitik... the Hallstein Doctrine fudge having been exposed too often.

[webbo3]

Did he know the Clintons?