A GROWING STRING OF APPARENT SUICIDES AND ACCIDENTS INVOLVING BUSINESSMEN AND HIGH RANKING RUSSIAN OFFICIALS *FAR FROM THE FRONT LINES OF WAR* IS TURNING OUT TO BE WELL.. QUITE THE MYSTERY

THIS WEEK FORMER RUSSIAN POLICE GENERAL VLADIMIR MAKAROV WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS HOME OUTSIDE MOSCOW IN WHAT RUSSIAN POLICE ARE DESCRIBING AS SUICIDE VIA A SELF INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND. MAKAROV WORKED DIRECTLY UNDER VLADIMIR PUTIN AND WAS SACKED FROM HIS JOB JUST WEEKS BEFORE HIS DEMISE

THIS FOLLOWS THE DEATH OF FORMER RUSSIAN ROSCOSMOS MANAGER DMITRY PAWOCHKA – WHO DIED IN A FIRE AFTER REPORTEDLY FALLING ASLEEP WITH A CIGARETTE IN HAND

ABOUT A MONTH BEFORE THAT RUSSIAN SAUSAGE TYCOON PAVEL ANTOV DIED IN INDIA AFTER QUOTE FALLING FROM A WINDOW ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA – HE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN ACCUSED OF CRITICIZING RUSSIA’S WAR IN UKRAINE IN A LEAKED WHATSAPP MESSAGE – OH, AND TWO DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATE DIED OF REPORTED HEART PROBLEMS- AT THE SAME HOTEL ON THE SAME TRIP

SEVERAL OTHER RUSSIAN FIGURES HAVE MET THEIR ENDS FOR REASONS RANGING FROM A HELICOPTER CRASH IN SWITZERLAND, TO FALLING DOWN THE STAIRS, GETTING HIT BY A CAR, FALLING FROM A CLIFF, AND OF COURSE *SUICIDE*

IT’S BEING COINED SUDDEN RUSSIAN DEATH SYNDROME BY SOME – AND THERE’S NOW AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA PAGE DEDICATED TO THIS GROWING LIST OF VERY MYSTERIOUS ENDINGS

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