Another Putin Ally Dead After 'Suffocating' on Business Trip

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Source: Daily Beast, via Yahoo! News

The Daily Beast

Another Putin Ally Dead After ‘Suffocating’ on Business Trip

Noor Ibrahim
Wed, September 14, 2022 at 2:21 PM · 2 min read

Another top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has died this week, this time of an alleged “stroke” while on a business trip in the village of Roshchino in Russia’s far east region.

Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, 68, was editor-in-chief of the Russian state newspaper, Komsomolskaya Pravda. According to the newspaper, Sungorkin died “suddenly” after showing signs of “suffocation” during the trip on Wednesday.

“It happened absolutely suddenly, nothing foreshadowed. We were in the village of Roshchino. We were driving, we were already making our way towards Khabarovsk, we planned to get there in the evening today, and from there to Moscow. All was good,” his colleague Leonid Zakharov, who had accompanied him on the business trip, wrote in a story for KP.

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Russian Newspaper Editor Dies After “Suffocating”
September 14, 2022

https://www.joemygod.com/2022/09/russian-newspaper-editor-dies-after-suffocating/

[ZonkerHarris]

1. Putin allies are dropping like flies. It's like the end of CASINO. "Why take the chance?"

[cstanleytech]

20. The guy was 68 though that does not mean his death was not Putin assisted.

[Buckeyeblue]

37. 68 Russian years is old

I know I'm generalizing but Russians drink like fish and the food they eat sucks. A stroke, a heart attack is not surprising. And there is a lot of stress in Russia right now.

[Hortensis]

46. Umhm. Age-caused? Putin-assisted? Putin enemy assisted?

We know nothing.

[rurallib]

2. Sudden onset suffocation - a new kind of death in Russia

Whatever could have caused such a thing?

[barbtries]

3. i'll guess poison,

or his companions had orders.

[erronis]

12. Usually it's via a strong pair of hands, a pillow, or a garrot. Drugs work too.

Drugs are nice - leave no externally visible traces (other than cyanosis, etc.) especially if there are no autopsies allowed.

[cstanleytech]

21. "Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, 68," Other than a complication related to old age? #1. Putin.

2. Putin
3. Putin
4. Putin
5. Putin
6. Other

[LisaL]

23. Suffocation is likely a bad translation.

He had trouble breathing.

[GB_RN]

4. So My Question Is This...

Who's killing his alleged friends? Is he killing them as payback for something? Or are his former oligarch buddies whacking Putin's remaining allies as a warning to him to GTFO while the getting is still good?

[calimary]

6. I think you might be onto something.

Message sent. Wonder if - and how - the message is being received?

[GB_RN]

33. Good Question

Rumor/news is that Hitler-on-the-Moskva just survived an assassination attempt. So...

[Buckeyeblue]

38. What was the attempt? How did he survive it.

[GB_RN]

40. Allegedly A Failed Car Bombing...

There were a couple posts about here on DU.

Smoke poured out from one of the front wheels. Body guards and others were arrested, IIRC.

[FakeNoose]

7. Somebody in Russia wants Pootie to have no friends left

I wonder it this will ever happen to Chump?

[GB_RN]

34. Dolt45 Has NEVER Had Friends

Even the people in NYC have always hated his orange ass.😂

But on a side-by-side comparison, the people "close to him" are all going down on criminal charges. tRump couldn't get away with assassinating people and we on the left don't generally do that sort of thing. The DOJ, NY AG, and Fani Willis seem to be taking care of his goons for us, legitimately.

[nattyice]

10. I think you're dead-on

[erronis]

13. Wonder if there's not as much baksheesh to pass around anymore.

Putin needs it for fortifying his Sochi bunker. He knows he is dead meat if he tries to walk around his reformulated USSR.

I'm guessing the stench from his bunker in Sochi will eventually be pretty overpowering - no matter the infrastructure.

(Personal tip: Please monitor possible underwater escape routes in the Black Sea.)

[nuxvomica]

17. Could be the secret government services, too

I forget all the acronyms but there's been pushback on the war from these organizations and they would have the means to do these things.

[FrankTC]

19. Identified As Moles In the Trump Papers

Pure speculation -- I know nothing of these people. Just wondering if there's a connection between Trump's stolen documents and the recent deaths of people close or somewhat close to Putin.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Like WOW, dude !!! Can't see the forest for all those bodies raining down.

[Metaphorical]

8. Covid-19, Russian Variant

Symptoms include an explicable desire to leap from the windows of tall buildings, falling off boats into deep lakes, consuming polonium tea, etc. Linked to older high worth Russian oligarchs who have allied themselves with Vladimir Putin. Prognosis: grim.

So the question is: are these Putin allies who were planning to betray him, or is someone in the FSB performing a rolling purge of Putin allies?

[erronis]

14. These are all worthy of many new John Le Carre-style novels.

I'm sure there will be hundreds. Cash in if you have anything to say (even if it is preposterous!)

[CentralMass]

9. That plastic bag over his head might have been a factor 😉

[Delphinus]

11. Yikes!

Go against Putin, be arrested to face sham trials for speaking out or die.

[KS Toronado]

15. Did Komsomolskaya Pravda print something Putler didn't like?

[LisaL]

24. I don't think so.

NT

[Blue Owl]

16. I'm actually surprised that Diarrhea Donny hasn't adopted Sugar Vladdy's tactics yet

You know he wants to...

[louis-t]

26. That's what he admires about pootie

and Jung Un and Orban and Erdogan. They can kill without penalty. Even their own relatives. He dreams of that power.

[Chainfire]

18. What I haven't been able to figure out is are these people Putin's friends or former friends?

Is it a purge from the inside or outside?

[2naSalit]

27. That's the mystery.

[LisaL]

22. Sixty eight isn't exactly a spring chicken.

It's about average life expectancy for a Russian man.

[louis-t]

25. A plastic bag held over the head will do that.

[GenThePerservering]

28. 68 isn't particularly old

and a car window is a little small to be trying to push anyone out of, so I agree, there's probably a plastic bag from Perekrestok somewhere in the back seat along with an empty vodka bottle (making "all good&quot rolling around. Or the medical examiner just didn't bother with the garotte marks on the guy's neck.

[LisaL]

30. 68 is older than average life expectancy for a man in Russia.

NT

[GenThePerservering]

35. "Life expectancy" is a malleable statistical concept

and is heavily dependent upon individual circumstances. The 'average' includes the majority tranche of working class men with a low life expectancy from preventable causes (heavy alcohol use and smoking, unfortunately suicide, also). Russian women live 7 to 8 years longer, including working class women due to better health (and presumably dealing better with horrible social expectations).

Our buddy here enjoyed elite status and all of its benefits not enjoyed by many others. This makes a sudden 'oops' a little less likely, particularly associated with Putin.

(I have Russian relations on both sides of my family, some are recent arrivals - most hate Putin BTW and worry about the threat of authoritarianism here).

[LisaL]

39. This guy didn't hate Putin.

And it wasn't a sudden oops.
People do die naturally from strokes, even at younger ages than this guy.

[Evolve Dammit]

29. And this is what MAGATS are ok descending (or ascending?) into.

[Pachamama]

31. This wasn't a critic of Putin (who do have untimely deaths usually through Windows)

No - this was an ally of Putin

My guess - just like the car bomb that killed the daughter of an ally recently - these are targeted assassinations of Putin’s allies.

Sending a message to Putin.

[leftyladyfrommo]

32. Pretty soon Putin is going to be responsible for as

many deaths as Trump.

[Hekate]

36. Strychnine maybe? Putin's got the Borgia's beat all hollow.

[JoeTheRat]

41. Two words.

Yeah and right.

[marble falls]

42. First poison, then windows, now suffocation. Upper management is a precarious status in Russia.

[orangecrush]

43. With friends like Putin....

[Joinfortmill]

45. Keep it coming.