Russian reporter Borodin dead after mystery fall

BBC News ^ | 4/16/18 | BBC

[lump in the melting pot]

I hope he was thorough and locked the door to the balcony from the inside, as they usually do in these cases...

[Snickering Hound]

[lodi90]

No doubt a false flag op intended to smear Putinist Russia. /s

[PGR88]

but the incident was unlikely to be of a criminal nature.

yes, of course. People mysteriously fall out of windows all the time. I'm surprised he also didn't accidentally shoot himself in the back 5 times before falling also.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m have a cold and rainy Spring, but I guess his Fall was even more unpleasant.

[ptsal]

Slippe while taking down his Easter ornaments.

[lodi90]

A public execution with just enough deniability to allow Putin’s poodles to continue barking Kremlin talking points. One wonders what that spin will be on this one? I suspect they will impinge the honor of the deceased.

[neverevergiveup]

In Russia this passes for ‘natural causes’. That said, we’re not that much better these days.

[grania]

Would a drunk Russian falling off a balcony be that unusual?

[Sam Gamgee]

Funny all these Russian journalists sure are clumsy.

[Jim W N]

“Round up the usual suspects starting with the Clintons...”

[Timocrat]

However, a friend revealed Borodin had said his flat had been surrounded by security men a day earlier.

Move along now. Nothing suspicious to see here.

[butlerweave]

His shoes came off while the Kind and Good Boys(KGB) were holding him out a window to save a Kitten

[RinaseaofDs]

Borodin will be greeted by James Forrestal, who will be smirking and will say,

“It ain’t the fall, it’s the stop.”

[gleeaikin]

Not to mention all those ex spies, who just happen to run into poison gas or eat poison polonium. I sure would hate to be friends with Putin and then get on his wrong side.

[Red Badger]

Odd............................

[caww]

......"One wonders what that spin will be on this one?"....

Likely as the ones we saw here in the US.....

[Red Badger]

Well, it was a ‘natural cause’........gravity is ‘natural’......................

[shotgun]

There is a new show out called McMafia. A rival gang killed an associate of a Russian mobster by throwing him off his balcony. Czech police ruled a suicide but the mobster re-examined the apartment and found a broken fingernail in the heater register on the floor that came off as he was being dragged to the balcony.

[Red Badger]

Not at all...............unless there was no balcony...............