A plot or a simple coincidence? Difficult to determine. Magnats of oil, businessmen, or soldiers: since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, many leading Russian personalities have died in mysterious circumstances. For many of them, one thing in common: they died falling from a window. A few days ago, a fall cost the life of a Russian colonel.
Disguised suicide?
His name was Arthur Pryakhin, was 56 years old and was head of a regional branch of the Russian anti-monopoly (FAS) (FAS) service in the Republic of Carelia. Tuesday, February 4, nothing suggested that he would find death. However, that same day, the authorities found his death after he fell from a fifth floor window of an office building, reports the American magazine Newsweek. If the circumstances of the drama are still vague, the police said that Arthur Pryakhin had left a letter of suicide in his office, in which he apologizes to his wife, asks forgiveness from his loved ones and encourages them not to hold anyone responsible for his death.
According to information from the Russian newspaper Izvestiathe victim was a colonel at the start of his career and was appointed to his post in February 2014. Previously, Arthur Pryakhin had been head of the Department of Economic Crimes of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Carélie from 2010 to 2011.
A series of accidents
If the Russian inquiry committee first confirmed the identity of the victim and considered that this death was a suicide, it began to doubt when another accident occurred in such circumstances. This same Tuesday, in Moscow, the head of the medical center of the Russian Inquiry Committee, Colonel Alexey Zubkov, mysteriously fell from one of the windows of his office, located on the fourth floor of a building. Luckily, he survived, and was found aware, according to the local MK media. Ru. During his interrogation, the colonel said he had gone to the toilet, a piece where he fell, but had no memories of his fall. “His colleagues suggested that Alexey Zubkov could have been stressed the day before a meeting of the Board of Directors,” said the VCHK-OGPU media, who claims to have information from the Russian security forces. Place for the benefit of doubt …
Until this Thursday, February 6, two days after the second accident. It is the turn of the Russian musician and 58-year-old radio host, Vadim Stroykin, to be found dead after falling from a window in Saint Petersburg, while his apartment was searched by the authorities. According to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravdathe search would have been carried out as part of a criminal case. For the time being, surveys are still in progress.
These mysterious deaths are reminiscent of that of Ravil Maganov, president of the Russian oil giant Lukoil, on September 1, 2022. Currently, the circumstances of his death remain unexplained. The only factual element: the businessman fell from a window of a hospital in Moscow.