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."
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Another case of Putin-inspired defenestration?
Radio Free Europe, the American-financed broadcaster to formerly Communist countries whose budget has been slashed since the end of the cold war, says it expects to reach agreement soon with the financier George Soros to privatize its research and archives operations and move them from Munich to Prague.
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/20/world/radio-free-europe-seeks-to-privatize.html
Surprise, surprise.
Young cat’s bounce?
When I worked in a high rise building, the safety instructions said to presume any fall from above the fourth floor would be fatal. Thank you.
It didn't kill him.
5 floors, 32 years old. Doesnt seem high enough to kill him.
I don’t know but 50 ft might smart a bit!
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