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Nevilledog

(55,005 posts) Sat Feb 26, 2022, 07:06 PM Feb 2022

Reports that the financial director of Gazprom has committed suicide in Saint Petersburg today [View all]

Link to tweet

I deleted first post because I wanted other verification. Not that it's really possible to verify much coming out right now.

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Reports that the financial director of Gazprom has committed suicide in Saint Petersburg today [View all] Nevilledog Feb 2022 OP

A month earlier another body was found dead. BigmanPigman Feb 2022 #1

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2022 #7

In Russia, suicide is as contagious as covid. wnylib Feb 2022 #29

Dayum... calimary Feb 2022 #39

Not another horrible window accident from the fifth floor. Swede Feb 2022 #2

+ 1. iluvtennis Feb 2022 #26

Assisted Suicide? nt smb Feb 2022 #3

He accidentally cut his head off while shaving Johonny Feb 2022 #11

Could Putin be sending a message to the oligarchs that are pushing back? chowder66 Feb 2022 #4

Your theory is probably as likely as any I have thought of. Hard to even speculate, though. hlthe2b Feb 2022 #6

It is definitely just speculation on my part. chowder66 Feb 2022 #8

Yeah, it's easy to go there given Cha Feb 2022 #16

+1 chowder66 Feb 2022 #17

So thank you.. I wouldn't Cha Feb 2022 #18

It's a horrible thought and I doubt we will ever know the truth. chowder66 Feb 2022 #19

You never know.. with the Cha Feb 2022 #23

Maybe he's getting paranoid in his thieving ways and cutting out the ToxMarz Feb 2022 #33

By the sound of things, pootin better watch his own back. C Moon Feb 2022 #36

Yeah, ANOTHER guy who "fell" out of a window uponit7771 Feb 2022 #5

This one supposedly had a noose around his neck. BigmanPigman Feb 2022 #9

Guy "fell" out a window rpannier Feb 2022 #25

Nah....looks like this guy got the noose Nevilledog Feb 2022 #10

If the rule you followed... ret5hd Feb 2022 #12

Hands and feet bound? Chainfire Feb 2022 #13

How many times did he shoot himself in the back of the head? Azathoth Feb 2022 #14

After morning tea? moondust Feb 2022 #15

Dead men tell no tales. I guess someone's covering up their tracks. Others should be wary. TheBlackAdder Feb 2022 #20

Hmm. smirkymonkey Feb 2022 #21

Or relatives out for vengeance. wnylib Feb 2022 #31

Was it really suicide or did he refuse to do something Putin wanted him to do? Samrob Feb 2022 #22

Did he finish his tea before he hit the ground? lame54 Feb 2022 #24

My thinking is Delphinus Feb 2022 #27

Or, maybe everybody dies by suicide. nt leftieNanner Feb 2022 #30

I subscribe to the domino theory bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #28

Gerhard Schroeder, former chancellor of Germany and initiator of Energiewende is a Gazprom exec. NNadir Feb 2022 #32

"I really don't care" AverageOldGuy Feb 2022 #34

apparently russia is one of those countries where "suicide" is synonymous with "murder" nt orleans Feb 2022 #35

Price of Russian gas getting deadly ? Or depressing? Jarqui Feb 2022 #37

We don't need money , we get all we need from Russia ! monkeyman1 Feb 2022 #38

Gazprom website canetoad Feb 2022 #40

Second story window? Bashed his own head in before defenestrating? Hekate Feb 2022 #41

OK, this is via Bloomberg canetoad Feb 2022 #42