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submitted 3 weeks ago by Evilphd666@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

putin-wink isn't even hiding it. Being tossed out a high rise window is Putin's signature move.

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A former Russian oil executive has been found dead after apparently falling from the window of his Moscow flat.

Mikhail Rogachev was found outside his 10th-story apartment in Moscow with injuries consistent with a fall, Russian media reported.

Russian news agencies said authorities were treating his death as a suicide.

Telegram channels close to the Russian security services said his body was discovered by an agent of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, who was walking the dog of a senior spymaster in the building’s courtyard on Saturday morning.

The 64-year-old was a former vice-president of Yukos, the oil giant that was broken up and after its billionaire owner Mikhail Khodorkovsky was imprisoned after challenging Vladimir Putin.

He went on to work as executive director of the Onexim group, oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov’s investment vehicle, and later deputy general director of Norilsk Nickel, a mining giant.

He is the latest of nearly a dozen Russian energy executives to die in mysterious circumstances over the past two years.

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[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 71 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I mean, fuck the capitalist oligarchy that is post Soviet Russia, but soulless oil executives dying will always be funny.

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

Gotta love how western media cries and shits their pants over billionaires, CEOs, corrupt politicians and blatant western political interference-NGOs getting their just desserts in other countries tbh. Like as if anyone with sense (sadly less common than it should be) would have sympathy.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 weeks ago

They are constantly crying how "Russia is controlled by oligarchs" but at the same time how FSB defenestrate them every now and then.

[-] regul@hexbear.net 69 points 3 weeks ago

I enjoy executives dying. It is my favorite occurrence. When an executive "falls" out a window, I think to myself "yes". When an executive finalizes a merger, I think to myself "no".

[-] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on what's merging.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 3 weeks ago

Executive with pavement?

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 48 points 3 weeks ago

Skill issue. When I fell out of a window, I simply didn't die.

[-] scarcity_of_the_self@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Hell, my signature move has always been falling into windows, no joke, but I am no executive

[-] shreddingitlater@hexbear.net 46 points 3 weeks ago

Being tossed out a high rise window is Putin's signature move.

I thought it was grenade mishaps mid-flight prigo-pog

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 36 points 3 weeks ago

The highest window for him.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 37 points 3 weeks ago

Gravity is tricky over there I think. Everyone always falling out windows and all.

[-] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 35 points 3 weeks ago

Mikhail Rogachev is the latest of nearly a dozen Russian energy executives to die in mysterious circumstances over the past two years

idk. he fell from the window, and the sudden stop on the hard floor made him dead. doesnt seem particularly mysterious to me

Telegram channels close to the Russian security services said his body was discovered by an agent of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, who was walking the dog of a senior spymaster in the building’s courtyard on Saturday morning.

I love both possibilities of this


that this was the way of security services in general to show their adjacency without implicating themselves and the domestic intelligence services directly, as a message to others


or that this foreign intelligence agent was legitimately walking his boss' dog and was like "what


oh god damn it"

[-] Zvyozdochka@hexbear.net 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

How many people have "fallen out" of windows just in 2024 alone, it surely has to be double digits now?

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago

Seems like cultural appropriation tbh

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 3 weeks ago

Well Czechs aren't doing this anymore so the idea was just there, gathering dust.

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

his body was discovered by an agent of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service

So I guess he got killed for collaborating with foreign countries and risking national security?

[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 23 points 3 weeks ago
[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

isn't this that guy from one direction?

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He certainly went....one direction. hamas-red-triangle

The actual one direction dude died in Argentina and fell 3 floors.ancaptain

[-] SupFBI@hexbear.net 18 points 3 weeks ago

Rich motherfuckers always thinkin' they can fly.

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

Why didnt he use a slowfall scroll/spell? Is he stupid?

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Vladimir Putin solidarity Uncle Phil

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