Russian oligarch found dead in Moscow after falling out of window
www.newsweek.com
Former vice president of Yukos Mikhail Rogachev died in Moscow, state media reported.
  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    963·
    2 months ago

    I hope all American Oligarchs watch every window victim with wide eyes. This is the future you are funding with Trump.

  • Anas@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    2 months ago

    I feel like we all knew this was not the onion. The onion would be a Russian oligarch dying in any different manner.

    • brickloveEnglish
      30·
      2 months ago

      Russian oligarch survives assassination attempt by leaping out window

    • skygirl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      Russian oligarch dies peacefully in his sleep of old age.

      Mikhail Roguchev died peacefully in his sleep last Thursday evening surrounded by his family and the heavy iron chains he had fashioned to keep him from being thrown through a window…

    • fosho@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      Russian window manufacturer issues recall after hundreds of fatalities.

      • Madison420@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Russian oligarch dead from falling window, officials on scene say “huh, well that usually happens the other way round doesn’t it?”.

  • Troy@lemmy.caEnglish
    481·
    2 months ago

    It’s barely even funny at this point.

    Although I’d quibble about Newsweek defining this guy as an oligarch. He was vice president at a company that was disbanded due the company president’s opposition to Putin. It’s very possible this guy is just a former executive that refused to bend or hand over some dirt or something. It doesn’t appear he fits the definition of oligarch at all.

    Unless we’re just using the word to refer to all Russians above peasant.

  • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
    43·
    2 months ago

    I always see people commenting on stories like this with things like “how does anyone actually believe that/think anyone will believe that?”

    Well, that’s exactly the point. It’s not about the death being convincingly accidental. It’s very much about sending a message to others.

    You don’t eliminate the competition and agitators with the exact same method of execution for 30+ years (with a few false-flag apartment bombings thrown in for good measure) and expect to keep things covert.

    The only way they could make it more obvious is the “he hogtied himself, ate a cyanide capsule, jumped out the window and shot himself twice in the back of the head on the way down” trope.

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        Putin has been in power for 25 years. He arguably has more enemies than anyone else on the planet. I’d say the deterrent factor is pretty strong with this one.

        It’s not perfect though. When you’re destroying your own country with the most disastrous war in living memory then you need stronger deterrents.

      • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        As chonglibloodsport said, it’s a numbers game.

        When you have enough enemies, and keep making more, you’re going to keep getting people who have had enough and don’t care about the risk.

        If it weren’t for the “Russian suicide”, putin would have been black bagged long ago by someone who WOULD.

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      It’s the same with the vote rigging being caught on camera. It’s deliberately careless. “I’ve rigged the vote, so don’t even try”

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    Future generations of Russians will gain immunity to fall damage once they weed out the ones still complying with the law of gravity.