Posted on 04/16/2018 5:21:10 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
investigative journalist who wrote about the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria has died after falling from his fifth-floor apartment balcony.
News website Novy Den (New Day) said its reporter Maxim Borodin died at a hospital on Sunday (local time).
Borodin was reportedly found on the ground of his apartment in Yekaterinburg by neighbours on Thursday, but the cause of the fall was unclear.
Russian news reports cited police as saying the apartment was locked from the inside.
In March, Borodin wrote about bodies believed to be those of Russian mercenaries being delivered to a regional village.
Thousands of mercenaries have reportedly been deployed to Syria by the shadowy contracting company known as Wagner, believed to be bankrolled by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a St Petersburg entrepreneur dubbed "Putin's chef" by Russian media because of his restaurants and catering businesses that once hosted the Kremlin leader's dinners with foreign dignitaries.
Mr Prigozhin was indicted by the US in February on charges that he funded the "troll factory" alleged to have tried to influence the 2016 presidential election.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for a full and impartial investigation into Borodin's death.
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Russian Flew.
Again?
Sounds suspicious but you have to wonder what are the odds of any given Russian getting drunk enough to totter out to a balcony and fall off it? About one in three perhaps.
I love the way the Russian trolls are brought into this, next story, a truck veered off a highway into a vacant office building in Omsk that up until last month was thought to be (snicker) the site of a Russian troll factory that (whatever fantasy you like).
Defenestration, Russian Style
Have you every watched Russian dash-cam videos? I think your theory has merit.
What Mr. Ambassador ? You’ve lost
Another journalist?
The protagonist end up in the outside of Hell by unsuccessfully imitating the "War & Peace" scene of guzzling vodka while sitting in an open window with the legs hanging out.
betcha there is a Clinton Foundation connection here
Jan Maseryk
Actually a Putin connection.
He wrote truth. A truth that humiliates Putin and shows his incompetence.
Press KGB for ground floor.
Shades of Jan Masaryk in Prague after communists took over.
Same burb where tsar Nicholas and family, including the dog, were murdered by the Bolsheviks.
Very good news for putinistas.
It’s not a good time to be a democrat or a Russian.
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