Russian head of Soviet-era newspaper mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from Moscow window

[Mr. Sparkle]

Yet another prominent Russian has fallen to his death from a window in Moscow. Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, who headed the secretive Pravda publishing house fell at least 70ft to his death on Sunday. Mr Leontyev was the head of Soviet paper Pravda, which translates to Truth, the main news outlet of the Communist Party. He continued leading the paper long after the fall of the USSR in 1991.

Police are investigating whether his death was a suicide, an accident or involved some kind of foul play. It marks the latest in a slew of suspicious deaths in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Reacting to the news, exiled Russian Andrey Malgin said: “The window falls continue. Leontyev fell from a window. “He was found near his home on Molodogvardeyskaya Street, where he lived.”

Malgin added: “He gave the impression of a sort of underground millionaire. “He also knew a lot about the ‘Party’s money’ — the Pravda publishing house was the most profitable enterprise in the business empire of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union] Central Committee.”

It comes just months after Andrey Badalov, vice president of Russian oil pipeline company Transneft, was found dead beneath the windows of a home on the Rublyovo-Uspenskoye highway.

more... https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/russian-newspaper-lead-falls-to-death-putin-5HjdDyz_2/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Not that mysterious.

[Blue_Roses]

2. Good grief...

He was 87 years old. I doubt he committed suicide and he sure didn't just "fall out the window". These deaths are so blatantly obvious. But, whose gonna really investigate it...

[marble falls]

5. ... someone who'll fall out of window later?

[Blue_Roses]

6. Yeah, and they know that

so who would touch that? No one.

[marble falls]

3. In some ways it seems like the middle ages in Moskow.

[Coventina]

4. Those windows can really sneak up on you!

[UpInArms]

7. He knew too much

and they had to make certain he took his knowledge with him …

No deathbed confessions allowed … no sharing …

Dead men tell no tales

[spanone]

8. I perceive a trend.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

9. So, if Pravda translates to "truth" (wink, wink, nod), then Krasnov Trumpski's Gopaganda site is: Pravda Social!

[DFW]

12. Russian is a Slavic language, so you have your choice.

Slavic languages have no articles, so Правда on its own means "the truth," "truth," or "a truth." Context determines how it is meant (or if it is meant to be ambiguous). Remember Boris and Natasha from Rocky and Bullwinkle? "Look, Boris, is Moose and Squirrel!" The writers of the show deliberately chose to make fun of the fact that native speakers of Russian have trouble knowing when to use articles and when not to, since their own language gives them no guidelines.

The same goes for Ukrainian. "Україна" means "the Ukraine," "Ukraine," or "a Ukraine." The Germans, who do have articles, refer to "Die Ukraine" (the Ukraine) consistently, whereas in France, they follow their own grammar--"en Ukraine" vs. "pour l'Ukraine" ("in Ukraine" vs. "for the Ukraine" ). I've even heard some people claim that it's wrong to say "the Ukraine" because it's the old Russian imperial way of saying it, which is, of course, nonsense, since there is no way to say "the" in Russian.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

13. Interesting! Thanks. (and yes, I remember Rocky & Bullwinkle!)

[Aristus]

14. "There's no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvezstia."

Old Soviet-era joke.

[DFW]

10. V.V.P. has to get tired of this at some point.

Always the same method of ending his arguments. And come on, an 87 year old guy? One fine day, he'll go back to putting polonium in their tea. Or maybe get really original and send them on a one-way research diving trip to the depths of Lake Baikal.

[kacekwl]

11. This is coming to the US.

trumps cabinet better stay on the ground floor and bring your own coffee to work. Or in kegsbreath case vodka.

[Turbineguy]

15. Putin's Flying School

[Maru Kitteh]

16. They need a new schtick. Routine is getting old.

Probably they are too broke and degraded for something new.