Vladimir Egorov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was found dead on Wednesday, according to Russian state media. Tobolsk City Duma deputy Egorov, 46, a member of Putin’s ruling United Russia party, fell from the third floor window of a house on Kedrovaya Street in Tobolsk in the Tyumen Oblast, Russian Telegram channel Baza, which has links to Russian security services, reported. Russian daily newspaper Izvestia also cited a source as saying that Egorov could have fallen out of a third floor window. Newsweek couldn’t immediately verify the cause of Egorov’s death and has contacted Russia’s Foreign Ministry via email for comment. The press service of the Investigative Directorate for the Tyumen region told Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti that investigators are “establishing all the circumstances of the incident.” Last year, Egorov became one of the richest deputies of Tobolsk, with his income amounting to 9.1 million rubles (about $100,500), Russian news outlet RBC reported on Thursday.

  • @Thrashy
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    1911 months ago

    As an architectural professional, I kinda want to skim over Russian building codes on the off-chance that they just have really shitty practice around fall protection at windows, and all of our jokes about it misunderstand the situtation after all.

    • @Buddahriffic
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      611 months ago

      All floors must slope at least 6 degrees towards windows (or 5 degrees if the sill is greased) to reduce vampire invasions.

      • @Thrashy
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        11 months ago

        They say the building code is written in blood, and hoo boy did Vlad Tepes leave a mark in that part of the world.

        • @Buddahriffic
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          211 months ago

          Everyone talks about the impaling outside of window stats but no one ever brings up the low impaling inside of window stats.

    • @Treczoks
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      -111 months ago

      I believe that Navalny had fallen out of a window long ago if there were any without bars in the Gulag.

      • @Cypher
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        211 months ago

        Not exactly a hot take given Putin tried poisoning Navalny once.

        • @Treczoks
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          111 months ago

          I know. Maybe he was weary of upstairs windows back then so Putler had to use the other method.