RUSSIA’S grim roll name of high-profile deaths has grown once more — this time claiming the person who as soon as managed the Kremlin’s loudest propaganda voice.
Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, the secretive boss of the Pravda publishing empire, plunged 70ft from the balcony of his Moscow residence.
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Police say they’re investigating whether or not the Saturday night time loss of life was an accident, suicide, or foul play.
Leontyev wasn’t simply any previous Soviet relic.
For many years, he ran Pravda — “Fact” — the mouthpiece of the Communist Celebration and one of the crucial highly effective media machines of the united states.
Lengthy after the Soviet collapse, he remained in cost, a person believed to know the place the occasion’s hidden billions have been buried.
Exiled journalist Andrey Malgin known as it one other “unusual loss of life”, writing: “The window falls proceed… Leontyev, fell from a window.
“He was discovered close to his dwelling on Molodogvardeyskaya Road, the place he lived.”
Malgin, who knew Leontyev, added: “He looked like a kind of underground millionaire…
“He knew loads concerning the ‘Celebration’s cash’ — the Pravda publishing home was essentially the most worthwhile enterprise within the enterprise empire of the CPSU Central Committee.”
Unconfirmed reviews say Leontyev had been unwell.
However his fall slots neatly right into a chilling sample of deaths amongst Russia’s elite — a physique rely that has soared since Vladimir Putin launched his warfare on Ukraine.
Final month, former St Petersburg transport boss Alexander Fedotov’s physique was discovered exterior the five-star Skypoint Luxe resort at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo worldwide airport.
He had been staying on a enterprise journey in a room on a “excessive flooring” within the resort, in line with reviews.
A prison investigation is underway with reviews saying no suicide observe was discovered.
He was linked to Vladimir Putin’s transport minister Roman Starovoit, 53, whose loss of life in July – formally designated as suicide hours after Putin fired him – stays extremely suspicious amid claims he had been “tortured” earlier than being “murdered”.
Amongst dozens of deaths seen as suspicions are Lukoil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, who fell from a window of Moscow’s elite Central Medical Hospital, also called the Kremlin clinic, in September 2022.
He was changed by Vladimir Nekrasov – who died aged 66 of “acute coronary heart failure” in October 2023.
Each Maganov and Nekrasov had opposed Putin’s warfare.
The next month, Russian senator and warfare backer, Vladimir Lebedev, with shut Lukoil hyperlinks, died instantly in an unexplained “horrible tragedy” aged 60.
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In March, 2024, Lukoil vice-president Vitaly Robertus, 53, was discovered hanged in his workplace bathroom.
Individually, Pavel Antov, 65, a Russian sausage tycoon and politician, fell from a resort window in India in December 2022.
And Marina Yankina, 58, a defence official in control of warfare cash, died in February 2023 after falling 160ft to her loss of life in St Petersburg.
In the meantime, former oil firm vice chairman Mikhail Rogachev, 64, died after falling from his tenth-floor residence in Moscow in October 2024.
He had been a senior government at Yukos, an oil firm dismembered by Putin and his cronies.
And in July this 12 months, Transneft vice-president Andrey Badalov, 62, fell to his loss of life from the elite tower block the place he lived on Moscow’s Rublevskoye Freeway.
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