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Russian Investigative Reporter Dies After Fall From Window; Editor Rejects Suicide
RFE/RL With reporting by Novy Den, RIA Novosti, and Grani.ru ^
| April 15, 2018
| Staff
Posted on 04/15/2018 12:24:44 PM PDT by BeadCounter
Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin of Yekaterinburg has died of injuries sustained on April 12 when he fell from the window of his fifth-floor apartment.
Borodin, 32, died on April 15 in a hospital without recovering consciousness. Officially, his death was being investigated as a suicide.
A Sverdlovsk Oblast police spokesman said it was "unlikely that this story is of a criminal nature."
(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: journalists; maksimborodin; putin; russia; yekaterinburg
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To: BeadCounter
“Worst case of suicide I’ve ever seen.”
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04/15/2018 12:26:03 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: BeadCounter
To: BeadCounter
How’s the Seth Rich investigation going?
To: BeadCounter
Seems whenever a Russian is in close proximity to an open window on an upper floor, sh!t happens 🤔🤔🤔
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:27:54 PM PDT
by
Impala64ssa
(Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
To: BeadCounter
Must be near Fort Marsky Park.
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:28:49 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: BeadCounter
After a short push from behind!
To: Davy Crocket
After a short push from behind! Well, there is that.
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:30:59 PM PDT
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dfwgator
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:35:27 PM PDT
by
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
To: Davy Crocket
5 floors, 32 years old. Doesn’t seem high enough to kill him.
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:36:09 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: BeadCounter
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:40:21 PM PDT
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Reily
To: Reily
Did he know the Clintons?
To: BeadCounter
Can you get life insurance in Russia if you’re an investigative reporter? Hell, can you even buy green bananas?
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:46:57 PM PDT
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Yaelle
To: BeadCounter
Is his next story gonna be about gravity?
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:51:03 PM PDT
by
moovova
To: Reily
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:52:58 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
That was done stylishly but it wasn’t done in “Good Bohemian style”!
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:56:57 PM PDT
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Reily
To: Reily
The Russian judges scored it....
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posted on
04/15/2018 12:59:30 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
Who killed Kirov? Stalin asked...but he already knew.
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posted on
04/15/2018 1:01:05 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/15/2018 1:03:34 PM PDT
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Reily
To: BeadCounter
Sounds like a bad case of the Russian flu. Glad things like that never happen in America.
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posted on
04/15/2018 1:03:46 PM PDT
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bray
(Pray for President Trump)
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