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The suicide rate in Russia is the third-highest in the world, [8] and similar trends have been noted in 2020 about doctors who have treated COVID-19 patients falling from high windows. [8] Suicides could be further increased especially in the Russian business community due to substantial pressure from the war in Ukraine and international ...
Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian: Борис Абрамович Березовский, Hebrew: בוריס ברזובסקי; 23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013), [5] [6] also known as Platon Elenin, [7] was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Alexander Litvinenko was an officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and its predecessor, the KGB, until he left the service and fled the country in late 2000. In 1998, Litvinenko and several other Russian intelligence officers said they had been ordered to kill Boris Berezovsky, a Russian businessman. [3]
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A Russian journalist who accused Putin of creating a police state, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006 outside her apartment. When five men were convicted of her murder, the judge found it was ...
Alexander Litvinenko was born in the Russian city of Voronezh in 1962. [18] After he graduated from a Nalchik secondary school in 1980, he was drafted into the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a Private.
Mordashov is the son of Russian parents, who were both steel mill workers. [11] According to Mordashov, his family used welfare coupons, allowed only 200g of butter and 400g of sausages per month. [12] He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Leningrad Engineering-Economical Institute, currently known as ENGECON.
State media suggested Lukoil boss Ravil Maganov died by suicide. His is the latest in a string of untimely deaths of Russian energy bosses. Russian oil oligarch dies 6 months after his firm ...