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hatrack

(59,592 posts)
Tue Apr 26, 2022, 08:17 AM Apr 2022

Death Toll Among Senior Russian Energy Executives Since 1/1/22 - Four

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However, Sergei Protosenya is not the only Russian energy company representative that lately has been found dead. Only one day before deaths in Lloret de Mar, a similar case took place in Moscow. Vladislav Avayev was former deputy president of Gazprombank. He was on the 18th of April found dead in his apartment with a gun in his hand. In the same apartment were found killed his pregnant wife and daughter, Baza reported.

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Two months earlier, on the 25th of February, a deputy head of a Gazprom subsidiary was found dead in a village near St.Petersburg. Aleksandr Tyulyakov was key figure in Gazprom’s financial settlements center, 47news.ru reports. And in January this year, a leading representative of Gazprom Invest was found dead in that same village. Leonid Shulman headed the company’s transport service, 47news.ru reported.

In all the four cases, the men appear to have committed suicide. But there are believed to be a number of suspicious circumstances related to the cases. Two of the deaths come after Vladimir Putin’s landmark speech on 13th of March where he warns against “fifth columnists” and “national traitors.”

“I am not condemning those who have villas in Miami or on the French Riviera, who can not live without foie gras, oysters or so-called gender freedoms. The essence of the problem is rather, as I have said before, that many of those people mentally are located there and not here, with our nation, not with Russia,” the president told his government.

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https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life-and-public/2022/04/four-top-russian-energy-leaders-are-found-dead

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Death Toll Among Senior Russian Energy Executives Since 1/1/22 - Four (Original Post) hatrack Apr 2022 OP
There is a reason these guys are being eliminated. Why? UCmeNdc Apr 2022 #1
The tide is going out and the Kremlin can see who... Hugin Apr 2022 #2
When you are the King, you know how to deal with disloyal subjects. Chainfire Apr 2022 #3
The more disruption Putin causes among his own elite, the better for Ukraine and the world dutch777 Apr 2022 #4

UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
1. There is a reason these guys are being eliminated. Why?
Tue Apr 26, 2022, 08:22 AM
Apr 2022

The CIA needs to come up with the answers. There is something going on here.

Hugin

(33,206 posts)
2. The tide is going out and the Kremlin can see who...
Tue Apr 26, 2022, 08:30 AM
Apr 2022

Doesn’t have the regulation swim wear on.

Pootie himself said it is a litmus test.

Chainfire

(17,641 posts)
3. When you are the King, you know how to deal with disloyal subjects.
Tue Apr 26, 2022, 08:50 AM
Apr 2022

I believe that the same is happening with the generals dying in combat.

dutch777

(3,035 posts)
4. The more disruption Putin causes among his own elite, the better for Ukraine and the world
Tue Apr 26, 2022, 09:31 AM
Apr 2022

Things don't run all that smoothly in RU on a good day. Take out leaders and reorg everything to put Yes Men in their place will not probably have a beneficial result. That is actually good for Ukraine and the West in general probably.

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