Russian falls out of window

[Uncle Albert]

Very unlucky. What are the chances of your pilot having a Covid vaccine induced heart attack leading to the plane exploding in mid-air?

It must be what happened because "Honest Vlad" said so.

[dsc]

He was a dead man walking after he bailed on that mutiny, I don't really get what he was thinking, it was just a matter of time.

Or of course, he's not really dead...

[vetran]

hard to feel sad, a very nasty man, pity he didn't depose/dispose of Vlad first.

[Zigenare]

Last seen at 28,000 feet: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...02795#31b7cbfb

All because he wouldn't drink the tea.

Is Putin so insane that he would sanction this just to save face...
(I think we know the answer to this one...)

[NickFitz]

This one didn't fall out of a window, his plane fell out of the sky, two months to the day after the mutiny.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/...ssenger%20list.

Last seen at 28,000 feet: https://www.flightradar24.com/data/a...02795#31b7cbfb

[DoctorStrangelove]

This one didn't fall out of a window, his plane fell out of the sky, two months to the day after the mutiny.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/...ssenger%20list.

This, of course, assumes that he was stupid enough to use his own name & passport. .

Ooooo, a vid. Inneresting.

And another one died in clink a couple of days ago, presumably because he knew the ins & outs of Putin's bunker.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...20days%20later.

[Paddy]

It's Truss fault there is no gas from Russia (and why Russian business men fall out of windows)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ed-says-moscow

Russia will not resume in full its gas supplies to Europe until the west lifts its sanctions against Moscow, the Kremlin said, as concerns over Russian gas supplies continued to drive up energy prices.

Speaking to journalists on Monday, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, blamed sanctions “introduced against our country by western countries including Germany and the UK” for Russia’s failure to deliver gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.

“Other reasons that would cause problems with the pumping don’t exist,” Peskov was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying.

In 1948, the Russians closed the Autobahn from West Germany to Berlin for repairs, it was closed for 323 days. Same excuses.

[SueEllen]

It's Truss fault there is no gas from Russia (and why Russian business men fall out of windows)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ed-says-moscow

Russia will not resume in full its gas supplies to Europe until the west lifts its sanctions against Moscow, the Kremlin said, as concerns over Russian gas supplies continued to drive up energy prices.

Speaking to journalists on Monday, Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, blamed sanctions “introduced against our country by western countries including Germany and the UK” for Russia’s failure to deliver gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.

“Other reasons that would cause problems with the pumping don’t exist,” Peskov was cited by the Interfax news agency as saying.

[SueEllen]

In other news that pipeline Russia turned off 2 days ago isn't been turned on as apparently there is an oil leak...

link - https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/statu...7Ctwgr%5Etweet

"Russian Windows"

[AtW]

and a single bed sheet with a big hole in the middle

You actually want an answer to this?

[tazdevil]

A fire alarm went of and he was seeking the fire escape ladder Seriously when I first visited Russia in the early 80's we were put up for the first night in a Russian tourist hotel that was simply a 20 storey block of rooms separated by a corridor on each floor with a door to the fire escape at the end of each corridor. Looking out of the door revealed nothing but fresh air not even a ladder tied to the wall. Using the fire escape would have resulted in suicide splat


Another interesting aspect of that hotel was the regulation size curtains that didn't fit the windows, a single towel that we'd call a tea towel and a single bed sheet with a big hole in the middle

[vetran]

Fall?

[dsc]

So they now class falling-face-down-on-your-head-from-sixth-floor as "severe illness"? Interesting...

[SueEllen]

Again.

Who makes Russian windows?

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


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

The company confirmed his death but said only that Maganov, 67, had "passed away following a severe illness".

Russian media said he was being treated at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital and died of his injuries.

Maganov is the latest of a number of high-profile business executives to die in mysterious circumstances.

Investigating authorities said they were working at the scene to establish how he died. Tass news agency quoted sources saying he had fallen out of a sixth-floor window early on Thursday morning, adding later that he had taken his own life.

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.

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.

Lukoil is Russia's biggest private company. In its statement it said it was down to Maganov's managerial talent that it had evolved into one of the world's largest energy firms.

He began working for the private oil company in 1993 and took over as chairman two years ago. Three years ago he was given a lifetime achievement award by President Vladimir Putin.

Maganov had been receiving treatment at a hospital on the western outskirts of Moscow, which is known for having Russia's political and business elite among its patients.

Mikhail Gorbachev died at the Central Clinical Hospital on Tuesday and President Putin visited the site on Thursday morning to lay flowers beside his coffin.