Top Putin Defense Official Succumbs to "Sudden Russian Death Syndrome"

[Best_man23]

"Top Putin defence official, 58, plunges 160ft to her death from 16th-floor tower block window"

"She is the latest of many Russians to have plunged to their deaths during Putin's long rule. Just last week, Major General Vladimir Makarov - a Russian general who was recently fired by Putin - was found dead in a suspected suicide (or, perhaps he just "preferred to avoid the red tape&quot .

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11758535/Top-Putin-defence-official-58-plunges-160ft-death-16th-floor-tower-block-window.html

Reference DU thread on "Sudden Russian Death Syndrome": https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016340566

[lark]

1. Windows are a leading cause of death for oligarchs in Russia.

They should do something about this.

[rubbersole]

9. A paneful way to go...

[ananda]

10. Oh that's so bad....

[tanyev]

2. Flu. Gravity flu.

[IjustDontlikeRepugs]

4. Lol. That's good. How about window cancer.

[yaesu]

3. Wagner group assassin's no doubt, putins brown shirts. nt

[ratchiweenie]

5. What I don't understand is why those who are out of favor with Putin ever go anywhere above

the basement or first floor.

[LakeVermilion]

6. Perhaps they don't...

willingly.

[ratchiweenie]

12. Oh, yeah, you're probably right.

[Wicked Blue]

7. Windows

Link to tweet

[AZLD4Candidate]

8. defenestration is death by natural causes in Russia.

[eggplant]

11. This is why we have OSHA.