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Another Russian Official Dies from Mysterious Circumstances
A high-ranking Russian defense official in the war against Ukraine was found dead Wednesday after falling from a 16th-floor window in an apartment building.
Marina Yankina, 58, was discovered by a passerby at the entrance of a high-rise on Zamshina Street in St. Petersburg, Russian.
She is believed to have fallen 160 feet to her death. Her personal belongings and documents were found on a 16th-floor balcony in the building. Mash reported that a few minutes before allegedly taking her own life, Yankina called her ex-husband and told him what she was about to do.
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Russian Oligarch "Found Dead" in Siberian Jail
Another top energy oligarch in Russia has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. The body of Igor Shkurko, 49, deputy general director of Russian energy company Yakutskenergo, was discovered yesterday in his cell in a detention center in Yakutsk, a port city in eastern Siberia.
The day before his death, the executive had submitted appeals against what he claimed was an unjust bribery allegation. The Russian authorities have provided no details on how Shkurko died, but asserted there were no signs of a "criminal death" based on "preliminary data."
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Another top energy oligarch in Russia has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. The body of Igor Shkurko, 49, deputy general director of Russian energy company Yakutskenergo, was discovered yesterday in his cell in a detention center in Yakutsk, a port city in eastern Siberia.The day before his death, the executive had submitted appeals against what he claimed was an unjust bribery allegation. The Russian authorities have provided no details on how Shkurko died, but asserted there were no signs of a "criminal death" based on "preliminary data."
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Russian Politician "Dies Unexpectedly" After Criticizing War
A senior Russian lawmaker who was critical of the invasion of Ukraine died over the weekend, the Russian government confirmed, in the latest unexpected fatality of a prominent figure since the war began.
In a statement, Russia's Ministry of Science and Higher Education confirmed that Deputy Science Minister Pyotr Kucherenko, 46, died on Saturday. The ministry said he "became ill" while on board a plane carrying Russian delegates home after a business trip to Cuba.
Kucherenko's untimely demise is one of many unexpected, high-profile deaths across Russia since the invasion started last year. Russian military officials, energy executives, and outspoken war critics have all died in mysterious circumstances over the course of the first year of the war.
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Russia Tried to Assassinate Defector in Miami
As Russian President Vladimir V. Putin has pursued enemies abroad, his intelligence operatives now appear prepared to cross a line that they previously avoided: trying to kill a valuable informant for the U.S. government on American soil. The clandestine operation, seeking to eliminate a C.I.A. informant in Miami who had been a high-ranking Russian intelligence official more than a decade earlier, represented a brazen expansion of Putin's campaign of targeted assassinations.
It also signaled a dangerous low point even between intelligence services that have long had a strained history. The assassination failed, but the aftermath in part spiraled into ***-for-tat retaliation by the United States and Russia, according to three former senior American officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss aspects of a plot meant to be secret and its consequences.
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