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Another Russian Executive Dies In String Of Strange Deaths Of Tycoons.
According to media reports, Ivan Pechorin died after falling out of a motorboat in the Sea of Japan close to the city of Vladivostok.
The top manager at Russia's Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic (KRDV), Ivan Pechorin, has been found dead after media reports said last weekend that he fell out of a motorboat in the Sea of Japan close to the city of Vladivostok.
The KRDV said in a statement that Pechorin's body was found on September 12.
Pechorin's death is the latest in a string of mysterious deaths among Russian executives to occur shortly before or after Russia's ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
In early September, LUKoil, Russia's largest private oil company and one of the few corporate voices to oppose to the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, said its chairman, Ravil Maganov, had died in Moscow following a "serious illness," while local media reports said the 67-year-old tycoon had plunged to his death from a hospital window.
In May, Russian media reported that a former top manager of LUKoil, Aleksandr Subbotin, was found dead in the basement of a house in the town of Mytishchi near Moscow.
Weeks before that, Vagit Alekperov, the founder and co-owner of LUKoil, resigned after he and other Russian tycoons were hit by sanctions by Australia and the United Kingdom over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The same day, media reports said a former top manager at Russian gas giant Novatek, Sergei Protosenya, his wife, and daughter had been found dead in a rented villa in the town of Lloret de Mar near Barcelona.
Several other senior Russian businessmen and their families have also been found dead amid unclear circumstances since Russia started its full-scale aggression against Ukraine.
On February 8, KVRD Director General Igor Nosov died at the age of 43. The death was officially announced as caused by a stroke.
Iran Downplays Impact Of Israel's Reported Retaliatory Air Attack.
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Ukraine Shoots Down 2 Of 7 Russian Missiles As Russia Says It Downs 50 Ukrainian Drones.
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Srebrenica Genocide Must Be Condemned, Denial Banned, 2 Members Of Bosnian Presidency Tell UN.
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U.S. National Dies In Occupied Donetsk, Says Russian Journalist
Russell Bentley, a U.S. national, has died in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in Ukraine, Margarita Simonyan, the head of Russia's state media outlet RT, wrote on Telegram on April 19.
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Flooded Dubai paralysed by year of rain in 24hrs as city denies cloud-seeding to control weather.
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Watch live: Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf faces questions from Parliament in Holyrood.
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Warwick Davis’ wife Samantha dies aged 53
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