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.

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    I don’t know what is more dissappointing: the lack of creativity in how these murders are covered up or that Russia is in such a sorry state that the powers that be see no need to bother.

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        It might have simply been a matter of under-performing. It’s been a long three days, and Ukraine still has Nazis, after all.

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        Not only that, having the MO as an open secret allows any of the few investigations that get past “declared suicide” can be declared a false flag.

        “We don’t actually do that. We never have. Our enemies spread these rumors, then attempt to frame us with this preposterous crime.”

        The propaganda has redundancy layers.

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        It’s a fine line. They don’t want people to conclusively prove that it’s them, but they want people familiar with them to know that it most likely is them.

        The interesting thing about this one is how low it was. There’s a decent enough chance of surviving falling from the 3rd storey, which suggests they would have ensured his death some other way.

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      Yea the comments are always the same tired defenestrate or hand-rail jokes on these articles but honestly it’s just sad to see that accountability has fallen so far that the despotic government of Russia doesn’t even try making these look believable

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      They were creative!

      This was a third story window, not a second story one.

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    Russians could make bank with a hand rail industry.

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      No “unless”, that’s exactly what it is… unless you want to trip and fall out of a window.

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        Or, and hear me out, the Russians developed a breed of super predator windows that seek out people (who just so happen to have annoyed the overlords), sneak up on them, gobble them up and shit them out the other side of the wall… just a theory.

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        Reminds me of the first episode of The Continental: we kill your family and ruin them, or you locate the nearest balcony and we leave them alone.

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      Hey, not cool comparing Russians to NPCs; I’ve seen game NPCs with more capacity for independent thinking

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    Very surprised that he didn’t shoot himself in the back of the head before he accidentally fell out of the window.

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      before

      Nope, the blood pattern clearly shows he shot himself after he hit the ground. Clearly, this man went above and beyond to kill himself. A Russian patriot.

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    Russian windows seem to be nearly as dangerous as American guns.

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      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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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    Interesting that’s it’s an ally and not a foe - that suggests (if it’s not a true accident) that the top is beginning to jostle for position.

    That, or fate loves irony.

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      Must not have been a good enough ally.

      That, or more interestingly, maybe Putin really is losing control in Russia.

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        Yes, often known as “When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you”-syndrome.

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    Windows seems to be a severe infrastructure problem in modern Russia.

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    Was banana peel (/russian accent)

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      I’m gonna go out, I’m gonna let myself get

      absolutely soaking WEEEEET!

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      I think it’s like a villain calling card. As a whole this war has been great for consolidating power

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      … was found dead after falling from a daylight basement window

      It’s about sending a message. Also a lot of Soviet era buildings don’t have working elevators, so why drag the body higher than necessary?

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      'Cause they have to be identifiable right away … not a splatter stain that takes days/weeks to identifiy.

      Gotta get that message out quick.

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      This one was the upper floor of the victim’s home

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      Less time to yell out that he’s being murdered

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    Marvel just should’ve called her “black window”, it’s more realistic that way.

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    For a while there I thought “moved to Belarus” was going to become the new “fell from a window”, but I guess they’ve decided to stick with tradition.