Thread. People falling from windows in Russia is a very common thing, Russian windows are seriously dangerous. Today it was that Spanish Sputnik journalist. Let's have a look at some others. @_JakubJanda @Kasparov63
In 2018 NTV journalist Nikita Razvozhaev died after falling out of a window in Moscow en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/r…
In 2018 Russian journalist Maksim Borodin fell from the 5th floor window. He had revealed that Russian mercenaries fighting in Syria had suffered massive casualties.
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In November 2009, independent broadcaster Olga Kotovskaya fell to her death from a 14th-floor window. She had been battling for control of her station with a member of the government. Her death was ruled a suicide. theguardian.com/world/2009/dec…
Alexei Kleshko, deputy speaker of the Krasnoyarsk Krai legislative assembly and former TV reporter fell out of his window and died.
Russian model falls from window sputniknews.com/amp/russia/202…
Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist falls from window and dies. He exposed failure of new intercontinental missile.
25 year old Margarita Virova, journalist/feminist fell out of a window. This somehow did not seem suspicious.
Tatiana Sekerina a 48-year-old federal judge, involved in cases against corrupt officials, fell from the window of her 15th-floor flat in Volgograd. en.crimerussia.com/gromkie-dela/b…
In 2017 Nikolai Gorokhov fell five floors from an apartment building in Moscow
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2018 Belgian Bruno Charles de Kooman, a senior executive of Novolipetsk Steel Plant (NLMK) in Russia, fell out of a window on 9th floor in Moscow and died.
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These windows are pure evil: Couple falls out of window having sex. Woman dies, man never found.
sputniknews.com/russia/2019070…
These are just some examples, feel free to add more
Biologist who worked on Covid fell out a window.
14 May 2020 Three Russian Frontline Health Workers Mysteriously Fell Out Of Hospital Windows npr.org/2020/05/07/852…
15 In 2007 Igor Vakhnenko fell from the fourth floor of an office building in Tomsk, Russia. Police buried him in the woods. ria.ru/20071011/83458…
16 On June 16, 2014 Boris Kolesnikov during interrogation fell out of the balcony located on the sixth floor. uofa.ru/en/gde-seichas…
17 In March 2016 an unnamed person from Central asia who was arrested jumped from a window during an interrogation. mosday.ru/news/item.php?…
18 Vadim Godlevsky, a magazine publisher, died in December 2017 after falling from a window on the 14th floor of his luxury apartment building in Moscow. bfm.ru/news/373384
19 In November 2015, Mikhail Lesin, was found dead after a fall (so not from a window) in his hotel room in Washington, D.C. A leaked report by Christopher Steele for the FBI said Lesin was bludgeoned to death by men working for an oligarch close to Putin. rferl.org/a/mikhail-lesi…
20 Alexey Stroganov, a prominent member of Solidarity, a Russian opposition party, died in October 2017 after falling out of a window at the second floor of his apartment building. tvrain.ru/news/sluchay-4…
21 - in July 2020 Yekaterina Mishkina, 37, a major with the police of the coastal city of Khabarovsk, in Russia’s far east, fell out of a staircase window on the top of a nine-floor apartment building in the city’s center occrp.org/en/daily/12782…
22 December 2021 Yegor Prosvirnin nationalist who criticised Putin jumped from his appartment and died, his naked body was found on the street below. ria.ru/20211227/prosv…
23- In august 2022 Putin critic Dan Rapoport fell from a building in Washington and died. politico.com/news/magazine/…
24- In September 2022 head of Lukoil Ravil Maganov fell from the window of a hospital in Moscow. Lukoil/Maganov condemned the war in Ukraine when the war in Ukraine started. interfax.ru/moscow/860208
Note: I looked at deaths of government (Russian government/Soviet Union and early Russia 1992-2000) critics, journalists etc in the period before Putin came into power (period till 2000). I could not find a single case of someone 'falling' from a window in this period.
25- Anatoliy Geraschenko, former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute died when falling from serious height within the institute
26 In the Russian city Bratsk (Irkutsk) Marina Kudrina, an associate of Navalny fell out of the window when Russian police tried to arrest her. December 2022. tayga.info/179977
27 28 year old Kristina Baikova fell out of the window of her apartment in Moscow. She was vice president of the Russian Loko Bank. I will update my thread of Russians falling out of windows
28 Vladimir Egorov from Tobolsk fell from the window. He was a local politician for the United Russia (Putin's political party. m.vlasti.io/news/93393-v_t…
29 judge Natalya Larina fell from a window.
30 Valentina Bondarenko (82), a well know Russian economist fell from her window. newsweek.com/top-russian-ec…
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