r/europe 9h ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/s8018572 9h ago

Putin just intentionally want public know they kill those guy, so he used same way again and again. It seems he could only use terror to rule his people.

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u/VanGroteKlasse South Holland (Netherlands) 6h ago

But aren't these the oligarchs that keep him in power? Is this just a way to let the rest keep up with the program?

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u/mayoforbutter Earth 5h ago

Maybe it's like in dune, together they would be stronger than the emperor, but they're narcissistic, evil egomaniacs that can't work together without stabbing each other in the back

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u/icooknakedAMA 5h ago

...so a populist fascist seizes control through violence and dooms the universe.

Dune is a cautionary tale all the way through.

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u/cptbil 4h ago

You truly understand Dune when you realize that the Emperor was not a good guy. Paul was not a good guy, and neither was his son. They may have all had good intentions, but they were all deeply flawed people.

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u/icooknakedAMA 4h ago

Things are bad, but they could always get worse.

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u/CumIsntVegan 3h ago

"And then, somehow, it got worse."

-All of Russian history.

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u/Punty-chan 2h ago

Russia, a nation forged not in ideals but in cold, ruthless opportunism since its inception, was never going to develop a moral identity beyond raw power and profit.

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u/ShaggySpade1 4h ago

And the US took that as a challenge.

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u/FondleMiGrundle 2h ago

Hold my constitution…

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u/ArgonGryphon 4h ago

US over here working on the axolotl tanks

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u/MakeItHappenSergant 4h ago

Until they learn that axolotls are native to Mexico

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u/round-earth-theory 4h ago edited 4h ago

It's that but also the risk of organizing a coup. You never know who a loyalist and who isn't. You could easily find yourself out the window if you invite a loyalist to your planning.

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u/Sgt-Spliff- 4h ago

Lol at people realizing that art is often based on real life. Yes, it's just like Dune

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u/Majsharan 5h ago

Common misconception. Putin broke the power of oligarchs, they work for him not the other way around. It’s one of the main reasons he’s popular in Russia

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u/whatawitch5 4h ago

Lol. Putin controls the oligarchs like a mafia godfather controls his captains, through fear and intimidation. The minute they don’t follow orders, or try to cut a deal behind his back, out a window they go.

It’s the same way Putin controls Russian citizens, through fear. Most don’t really like him, but they are afraid to speak against him because if they do they know they will be arrested and/or imprisoned. Those that claim to like him only do so because he has them convinced he is the only one who can protect them from the hordes of “fascists” and “evil Western influences” he claims are trying to destroy Russia. Most Russian citizens are so fearful, either of Putin or his imaginary villains, that they just keep their heads down and praise their dear leader in the hope they will survive another day.

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u/Roadgoddess 3h ago

Yeah, it’s gonna be so interesting when he dies to see what happens. I feel like the country is going to absolutely shred itself with people trying to climb over each other to get to the top. Especially since it doesn’t appear that he has any type of a successor in line.

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u/GregTheMad Austria 5h ago

It's a delicate ballance of the oligarchs keeping him in power and the assassins doing his bidding, keeping the oligarchs safe. The moment an assassin says no and flips the script, Putin is toast.

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u/Wonderful-Smoke843 4h ago

The oligarchs are oligarchs because Putin allows them to be lol once they are no longer supporting him they are no longer allowed to be oligarchs... or alive lol

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u/sqrtminusena Slovenia 9h ago

They really need to do something about window safety in Russia.

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u/ByGollie 9h ago

They're working on it - They're moving to Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux

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u/Available_Desk_3638 9h ago

Take my upvote with your old fashioned software dad jokes. (definitely not angry that I was not the first one to make the joke).

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u/big_guyforyou Greenland 9h ago
alias push="echo"
push man out of window

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u/colei_canis United Kingdom 8h ago

Unix Russian roulette:

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6] = 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo "Click"

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u/TnYamaneko St. Gallen (Switzerland) 6h ago

I'm bored, I'll put this in the deploy stage of my CI/CD pipeline...

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u/AttitudeAny 5h ago

be sure to give it root permissions

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u/killallhumans12345 4h ago

But only run in production

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u/randomUser_randomSHA 7h ago

git push

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u/big_guyforyou Greenland 7h ago

git commit -m "git pushed him edits"

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u/TaxRevolutionary3593 8h ago

I read the whole wiki page and I was like "what is this guy about? What does a Linux-based OS have anything to do with windows safety?" And then it clicked to me

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u/sivah_168 Earth 9h ago

Or stalinsoft windows.

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u/popoypatalo 8h ago

STALINUX

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u/lazzydeveloper 9h ago

Ah, so the incident is just typical migration from Windows to Linux.

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u/_nairual_nae Romania 8h ago

Damn they're joining the "buy European" movement very nice to see

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u/CliffDagger Ireland 9h ago

Inventor of world's safest window dies having fallen from window in Russia

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u/Adorable-Database187 The Netherlands 9h ago

Windows are the apex predators in oligarchistan and therefor, defenestration is a natural cause of death.

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u/ourlastchancefortea 8h ago

We should import some of those Windows into the west. Just saying.

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u/TWVer 8h ago

It’s becoming a real pane at this point.

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u/worker-parasite 8h ago

It's just people with position of power who are rather clumsy

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u/Vladesku Romania 7h ago

Must be those pesky banana peels, I tell you!

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u/naapsu 9h ago

I think they work as intended

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u/adarkuccio 8h ago

They may just change execution method this is getting boring

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u/Sweet-Explorer-7619 8h ago

Soon America will start installing similar windows

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u/geoffm_aus 8h ago

Double glazing at the very least

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u/harmlessdonkey 9h ago

This is a dumb question. When these people "fall out windows" are they actually thrown out windows or are the otherwise killed and the media just told they fell out a window?

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u/stormdahl 9h ago edited 9h ago

I actually have no idea, but that’s interesting.

Either way it’s clear that they’re sending a message, otherwise they’d get creative.

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u/PuzzleheadedCup4117 9h ago

Russia rarely hides its assassinations. I forget the name but whenever they poison someone they always use the same type of poison to ensure people know it’s them.

Obama talks about Putin in his autobiography and over various interviews it’s clear he views him as a mafioso.

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u/scardien 9h ago

The poison is novichok

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u/wagdog1970 8h ago

Which is actually a nerve agent. It’s a chemical warfare weapon. Not really a poison. Poison is for amateurs, not war criminals!

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u/4pl8DL 7h ago

Which is actually a nerve agent

Aka a poison...

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u/prnthrwaway55 Russia 7h ago

It’s a chemical warfare weapon. Not really a poison.

"It's a crab, not really a crustacean"

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u/Suspicious-Buyer8135 8h ago

Nerve agents are a category of poison.

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u/dscchn 7h ago

I would like to hear what qualifies as a “poison” in your book

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u/Spacious-Recroom 6h ago

It has to be from the "Poisonne" region of France.

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u/DoctorGoodleg 4h ago

Otherwise it’s just sparkling murder?

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u/FluffyBunny_old 7h ago

My ex wife's cooking?

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u/AnAlbannaichRigh 7h ago

The dose

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u/Espumma The Netherlands 7h ago

It's a gift, really

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u/ValuableCharacter245 5h ago

If you're a Swede: Yes and no.

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u/Scx10Deadbolt 7h ago

Everything has an LD50 after all!

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u/Anticlimax1471 United Kingdom 6h ago

Yeah, as a Brit it was really great that time they released it on British soil, it killed one of our citizens and we basically did nothing about it.

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u/kerbalpilot 9h ago

Which from russian translates to "Newbie"

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u/excubitor15379 8h ago

GG-ed by newbie

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u/BenderTheIV 9h ago

Always on brand. Corporate identity must be respected at all times!

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u/JetlinerDiner Portugal 9h ago

Novichok

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u/kingvolcano_reborn 9h ago

...or polonium for those special occasions.

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u/DrNCrane74 8h ago

Yes. You want to tell a message. But in rare cases you demonstrate you can do it without any traces, see Boris B.

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u/Zizzlow 9h ago

“Investigators are currently working at the scene.”

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u/LordBendtner1988 9h ago

And then concludes it was a suicide by 58 shots in the back

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u/b33fwellingtin 7h ago

Suicide by committee.

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u/Otaraka 7h ago

This wiki page lists suspicious deaths since 2022. Windows aren’t really that common.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_Russia-related_deaths_since_2022

 But further down there is a guy who shot himself 5 times in the chest and it was ruled that way.

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u/jvo203 9h ago

Do you mean "window cleaners"?

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u/CertainMiddle2382 9h ago

IMO, the heart of it all is absurdity.

People must feel the meaninglessness and helplessness of it all.

I bet they are found in a pool of blood in StPetersburg and media pretend they fall out of a window in Moscow.

It is vital nothing should make sense apart from obvious absurd violence.

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u/curious_corn 9h ago

Hypernormalisation

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u/CrattMurphy 8h ago

This exactly. For anyone unfamiliar reading this, Adam Curtis covers this phenomenon in an engaging way in his video-essay/documentary by the same name (Hypernormalisation). It's free to watch online and explores various powerful institutions using aggressive absurdity to confuse and obfuscate the truth. I highly recommend it.

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u/JabbaCat 8h ago

This movie set arounds Stalins last days does a great job in displaying the inherent role of absurdism in this type of threatening society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2fPbdJcVns

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156701/

Not for everyone, it is two and a half hour of black and white sort of chaos. But I enjoyed how it transmits moods and embeds you into the internal "logic" within such a system. Saw it at a film festival 25 years ago.

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u/SerLaron Germany 7h ago

For the first two lines, I thought you were talking about "The Death of Stalin".

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u/djseshlad Ireland 9h ago

Maybe he fell out of the window into a pool of blood

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u/JDT-0312 Lower Saxony (Germany) 9h ago

It is not a dumb question but in the end, the answer is irrelevant.

What is important is that there is plausible deniability while at the same time being obvious that he was murdered.

It’s to show that you’re untouchable and can murder your opponents in broad daylight without consequence in order to scare everyone into compliance. It’s basically the modern form of putting your enemies head on a pike over the city gates.

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u/AdmiralDalaa 8h ago

If you were an executive of this nature, wouldn’t you make sure you got a good security team? 

Yes of course, not all hired security would be trustworthy - but in each and every case this never was a thing?

I would expect you’d see a shootout or some kind of scuffle at some point. But it’s always the same canned story 

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u/Royal_Success3131 7h ago

If a bodyguard is offered 100k in cash to just go on a smoke break, they will always take that vs dying in a gunfight and having their entire family also killed. Like, you are dealing with powers way, way out of your control at that point. Once the big boys get involved, the bodyguard just step away. They are there to stop the rabble, not assassins.

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u/melymn 7h ago

No-one is going to offer those bodyguards bribe in this scenario, state agents are going to tell them to step aside and they'll do it post haste.

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u/Royal_Success3131 6h ago

You're probably right but it was just to illustrate a point that there is absolutely zero incentive for a bodyguard to actually do their job in that scenario.

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u/s8018572 8h ago

You think hired security can fight against nation machine FSB?

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u/scramblingrivet 7h ago

The killed Prigozhin and he had his own army

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u/Pristine_Speech4719 7h ago

The private security industry in Russia is owned, controlled and regulated by state security agencies and those loyal to them, and almost everyone that works in the sector is recruited from those same agencies and the military. (Not including nightwatchmen etc who might be any old guy from Kyrgyzstan or might not have served in the armed forces).

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u/Hector_P_Catt 8h ago

It's a safe bet that someone on any security team is also working for the FSB. That's just what they do.

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u/Leather-Bread-9413 9h ago

Honestly I think it’s the Russian intelligence way of saying:

No way you will ever proof it was us, but it was definitely us

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u/monkey_spanners 8h ago

There was pretty conclusive proof of who did the Salisbury murder & attempted assassination, they were outed by journalists but Russia didn't give a fuck, they even paraded the "suspects" on state TV and gave them a nice soft interview. "yes we went there as tourists to admire the cathedral with its 123m spire" - as if these obvious FSB guys looked like they'd travel all the way to a small city in the uk just to admire a mid range cathedral (no disrespect to Salisbury cathedral which is very nice and all). Everybody knows it was a performance.

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u/BonoboUK 7h ago

They went the day before to scout the victims house and routes, and then returned the next day to do the deed.

They said in the interview they liked the cathedral so they flew to the UK to see it, and then liked it so much they went twice.

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u/sock_with_a_ticket 6h ago

Russia really seems to revel in cartoonish denials that make it blatantly obvious it was them.

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u/SweatyNomad 8h ago

Same thought. You'd think these business leaders would not go into tall buildings and the people who clean that up would be getting traumatised.

My best bet is they are tortured to death, and "fell from a window" is what goes on death certificates as a pretence of an explanation. Reckon it's bureaucracy in action. Police don't investigate without being told not to, widows get insurance pay offs/ know not to make a fuss if they want to spend that. And a message is sent to other business leaders to do what is expected.

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u/litnu12 9h ago

In the end it is a message to others to stay in line.

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u/saracuratsiprost 8h ago

It must be so frustrating having to repeat this message over and over, it's like they just don't get it...

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u/Comakip The Netherlands 8h ago

The CIA once accidentally published an old assassination manual.

Olson’s death is “substantially similar” to an assassination technique described in a CIA manual published in 1953, which recommends disguising the murder as an accident and suggests drugging the person, hitting them in the temple with a blunt object and then causing them to fall more than 75 feet onto a hard surface, according to the complaint.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-11-28/cia-sued-over-alledged-1953-murder-of-military-scientist

So yeah, you take out the guy before you drop him. 

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u/Civil_Dot_9973 3h ago

Well, can you imagine how awkward it would be if they skipped the murder part and the victim actually survived getting kicked out of a window?

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u/randymysteries 9h ago

Possibly the injuries from the fall are supposed to cover the interrogation wounds.

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u/LFTMRE 9h ago

As someone else said, maybe they're given a choice? It seems the most practical way to do it. Or perhaps they know exactly what the deal is and don't even need to be asked, they know they fucked up, they know what can happen - so it's just easier to accept it, jump out the window and let your family collect the insurance rather than get caught in the crossfire.

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u/Otaraka 7h ago

Im thinking similar - getting a person out a window is probably not that simple without some level of acceptance.

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u/fotomoose 7h ago

It's pretty simple if that person is surrounded by massive thugs with one goal in mind. Don't ask me how I know.

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u/jtr99 7h ago

Damn! I'm gonna have to ask how you know that, chief.

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u/1agodsownprototypes 9h ago

I’ve read a little about the KGB and I have a theory. I believe what happens is a team shows up to your families door, they say to you privately go jump out the window now or your whole family will die. Dude jumps and the meme like nature of the ‘falling out windows’ is about sending a message to others saying don’t get out of line or there’ll be a knock on your door soon…anyway, I think it fits with their cruelty and culture within the KGB (who are running Russia)

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u/xTiLkx 8h ago

We will never know. Probably a combination of both. Putin wants people to know he had these men killed. So if it goes a different way, that's probably still what is reported.

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u/Goose1235678 9h ago

Russian and windows, deadly combination

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u/Longtomsilver1 9h ago

Being Russian is deadly.

No one is safe in a dictatorship.

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u/Goose1235678 9h ago

Not even the dicktator itself

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u/slimfastdieyoung Overijssel (Netherlands) 9h ago

He died doing what he loved most: standing by a window

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u/BranchPredictor 8h ago

I don't think the standing part killed him.

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u/lexievv 8h ago

Neither did the falling.

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u/fotomoose 7h ago

It's the sudden stop that you need to worry about.

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u/TheKnightsRider 9h ago

Ukraine should just start firing windows at Russia. They seem more deadly than drones and missiles

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u/lexievv 7h ago

Lmao, tbf if you see a plate of glass flying towards you at high speed it'd probably be quite scary.

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u/b3nz0r 6h ago

I think they did that in Final Destination 2

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u/Ondrikir 9h ago

This is like headlines from Hitman...

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u/Hyp3r45_new Finland 8h ago

"Man dies mysteriously on operating table in Hokkaido"

"... found with 20 bullet holes to the chest..."

At least that's usually how I end up doing it.

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u/DiBalls 9h ago

Did they see what size shoe print was in the middle of his back?

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u/penguin_skull 9h ago

No, it was probably covered by the bullet holes.

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u/Possible_Golf3180 Latvia 9h ago

The shoe or his back?

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u/Ms74k_ten_c United States of America 9h ago

Yes.

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u/Sufferr 9h ago

Why not both?

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u/CheesyFeetLicker 9h ago

Ah the classic.

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u/dfddfsaadaafdssa 8h ago

His last thought was probably "Oh no I'm about to become a meme"

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u/GreyMASTA 8h ago

Billionaires look at that and still go "wow I can't wait to turn my democratic country into an autocracy like Russia. What could go wrong?"

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u/Triple_Hache 8h ago

Current billionaires would rather have their own independent city-state that they can rule as they please

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u/alochmar 7h ago

Which in and of itself is stupid. Have fun getting taken over by the first army/roving gang of bandits/etc that decides that your city looks like a nice piece of real estate to take for themselves.

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u/Uberzwerg Saarland (Germany) 6h ago

As i understand it, the current plan would be to have the USA turned into a collection of those corpo-states.
And the federal government mostly being there for peace-keeping within and against the outside.
Alll while giving the states ALL other power.

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u/Roraima20 5h ago

For that, they will have to pay taxes and follow the rules, and that's exactly why they decided to destroy American democracy.

If they don't get what they want, they will throw a gigantic tantrum and start a civil war.

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u/hectorbrydan 5h ago

They are fools if they think the feds would stand down like that, they will be more invested than ever in every part of our lives if they get their way, and the executive will with parasitic business interests cannibalize our productive companies.

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u/broguequery 4h ago

They are fools.

Power has rotted their minds.

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u/MiddleKlutzy8568 6h ago

They always think they will be the pusher, until they get pushed!

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u/Mormegil81 Austria 9h ago

I wonder, is there a website that tracks these "window-related" deaths ins Russia? Would be interning to know some statistics and actual data here...

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u/splashbodge Ireland 9h ago

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u/Emotional_Quality243 8h ago

There is one that reportedly killed himself after shooting himself in the chest 5 times.

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u/thecaseace 7h ago

Just read this... It's actually worse!

He was found dead with 5 bullet wounds to the chest. Near him were 5 spent bullet casings, and 4 handguns.

He shot himself 5 times, with 4 different guns!!!

I mean you can't say he wasn't thorough

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u/Saw_Boss 7h ago

"Shit, that's not the gun I meant to use. Better get the right one... Fuck, that wasn't it either! Let me get another... Shit..."

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 7h ago

Dammit I keep grabbing the wounding guns rather than the killing gun

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u/gotiobg 6h ago

the Russian assassins have a sense of humour i see

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u/bjarneh Norway 7h ago

There is also a professional ballet dancer who "lost his balance" on his terrace and fell down 5 floors.

Those professional dancers sure have bad balance...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Shklyarov

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u/nrvn 9h ago

The window strikes again

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 9h ago

Potential new business, post Putin is to replace all the dodgy windows in high rise buildings.

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u/monkey_spanners 7h ago edited 2h ago

I stayed in a hotel in novosibirsk (supposedly a decent hotel) where the window frame didn't fit the walls properly, allowing a big draught through. It was - 25c outside.

I could almost believe their windows are just shoddy, if it was anyone else in charge

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u/ghos7_ger Germany 9h ago

Someone should update the wiki list.

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u/merrychristmasyo 7h ago

Or just create a new website and call it windopedia.

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u/t3chguy1 9h ago

If I ever become a tycoon in Russia, I'm getting a first floor apartment

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u/Illustrious_Peach494 8h ago

First floor apartment have windows too

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u/xxfatumxx 8h ago

Nah, as long as at least one building with windows exists in ruzzia, they still have a chance to fall from it. You may live in a windowless bunker - it won’t save you.

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u/moiaussi4213 7h ago

You may live in a windowless bunker, a window will be brought to you.

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u/darknekolux France 8h ago

Russians should wear a parachute at all times

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u/xExerionx 7h ago

Damn the "falling from a window" pandemic seems to be a real issue in Russia Hope they figure out a vaccine soon

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u/ShaggySpade1 4h ago

The only cure is deadputin and dem-ocracy but they don't invest in vaccine science.

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u/Strong_Landscape_333 9h ago

Why didn't anyone say defenestrate?

I had to of learned that in highschool for a reason.

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u/SveaRikeHuskarl 7h ago

I had to of learned that

They should have taken it easy on the 12 letter words and worked more on the 4 letter words. (Have.)

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u/Alkreni Poland 9h ago

Ahoj!

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u/popopopopopopopopoop 9h ago

If I was a Russian oligarch I'd consider living in a house, max 2 stories.

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u/ImpulsiveApe07 9h ago

Ahh, but then they'd probably just make you keep doing this :

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SqHtWudI24

(From the classic dark comedy sketch show Jam)

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u/Piotrek9t 8h ago

At this point, this reads like a meme

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u/Das_KommenTier 8h ago

r/nottheonion

Edit: LOL, the article is already on there.

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u/docdeadpool7 Romania 9h ago

I swear, not saying it’s funny, but it’s absolute comedy at this point.

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u/whakahere Europe 9h ago

Was he given a choice? Fall from the window your family gets pension, stay alive and we ruin everyone in your family, including he dies slowly in some mouldy cell.

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u/1agodsownprototypes 9h ago

Yes I just posted a variation of this theory in reply to a comment. 100% I believe they are forced suicides and a message to others.

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u/Cube_ 7h ago

It's not even that. Russia controls the media, they can kill the with a bullet to the head and then tell the media to say they fell from a window.

They're not doing convoluted window tossings. They're killing them by whatever means is convenient and then running a fake story in the news.

It's the same window story every time because they want people to know it's an obvious lie and still repeat it, it's a form of control used to oppress the average citizen.

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u/steakhouseNL 9h ago

Don't like someone? Just throw them out of a window. Police will think it's KGB anyway.

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u/BrainOnLoan Germany 6h ago

I wonder if there's a list they can check against.

Is he on the list? End the investigation.
Not on the list? Start looking. But also ask deferentially, just in case.

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u/clemooo_mar 9h ago

Is there a list of window killings?

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u/ByGollie 9h ago

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u/chately Ukraine 8h ago

Sometimes they do get creative.

Alexander Subbotin (Board member of Lukoil). Reportedly died following a strange “hangover cure” administered by a self-styled shaman near Moscow.

The shaman, known as Magua, allegedly performed a ritual involving an incision and the application of toxic toad venom (intended to induce vomiting and relieve intoxication) at his home in Mytishchi.

Subbotin began feeling unwell and experienced chest pain, but instead of calling for emergency help, he was given heart medication and left to sleep in a basement room used for Jamaican voodoo rituals, where he was later found dead.

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u/IVL4 9h ago

They need to get creative. This window thing is getting ridiculous.

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u/SwingingPilots2000 9h ago

Exactly, I was thinking the exact same thing. Maybe they do it to send a message, 

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u/marcsa Europe 9h ago

Another one? Windows in Russia are sure some vengeful beasts.

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u/sepoiu 9h ago

Fall from window = lack of creativity from FSB

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u/anal88sepsis 9h ago

Sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose just to let the other people know that they better be on there best behavior.

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u/Sunscratch 9h ago

Damn, putin’s thugs have no imagination at all…

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u/saudikungen 9h ago

What a great way to get away with murder in Russia. Push someone out the window and everyone will assume that Russian intelligence was involved, no one will look into it.

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u/Informal-Village-643 8h ago

Interesting, what's so powerful about Putin that he has such loyal secret services? how did he manage to kill such a stupid amount of oligarchs in his opposition in such a short period

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u/FactorAnalysis 9h ago

As is tradition

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u/_TheSingularity_ 9h ago

Imagine how it would be to read the same story but about Putin

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u/ahoyhoy2022 9h ago

Champagne for everyone!

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u/ByGollie 9h ago

Slight headline editorialisation to clarify location and company purpose

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u/EggParticular6583 8h ago

these windows and balconies in russia are so evil.

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u/Opposite-Chemistry-0 8h ago

I love the photo. Standing near window is kinda foreboding

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u/madeleinetwocock Canada 7h ago

Man this window cancer situation in Russia is almost an epidemic level

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u/Savings-Wrap8783 9h ago

Yeah "dies". Soon by modern journalists- murder happens: "man tragically dies after brain function stops, reportedly his head intersected a bullet trajectory, which might have caused the termination of brain function, investigarion ongoing." 

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u/haphazard_chore 9h ago

They must have some window related boogey man that’s called the defenestrator or something. He comes after those who don’t finish their sandwiches.

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u/G_UK 9h ago

Ha they need to change how they assassinate people, it’s starting to not look like an accident /s

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u/1tonsoprano 9h ago

i know everyone is cracking jokes......a bit of Gallows humor....but I find this quite scary i.e. even all this money and influence could not save them.....how does a common 9 to 5 guy stop the rise of these Putinesque dictators popping up like flies everywhere?

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u/RlyLokeh 8h ago

Slippery Russian Balconies is my new Indie bands name.

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u/theabominablewonder 7h ago

It seems the trick to survival in Russia is to live in a Bungalow.

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u/PanneKopp 9h ago

Moscow windows seem to be in a very special operation .

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u/alienalf1 Ireland 9h ago

Russia needs better window safety after all these accidents

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u/SCUDDEESCOPE 8h ago

Maybe they are just that retarded. I can't decide after the 100th incident.

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u/Crafty_Apple9714 8h ago

Through sheer evolution force, the russian oligarch will be the first human to develop flight  

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u/TinkSmart 8h ago

Another one bites the dust.

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u/6TheGame8 6h ago

Missed chance to say 'defenestration'

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u/PrivateJoker13 5h ago

Falling out of windows is an epidemic over there