Posted on 12/18/2022 7:15:27 AM PST by dennisw
Real estate tycoon Dmitry Zelenov died December 9 in French town of Antibes He is said to have tumbled down stairs after feeling unwell at dinner with friends Zelenov was rushed to hospital but his death was confirmed the following day
Yet another oligarch has met a mysterious end as the death toll among the Russian elite continues to climb amid Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
Dmitry Zelenov, a real estate tycoon, died on December 9 in the French Riviera town of Antibes.
The oligarch, 50, was out to dinner with some friends when he began feeling unwell and tumbled down a flight of stairs, sustaining serious head injuries, according to Russian news outlet Baza and local French outlet Var Matin.
He was rushed to hospital but doctors were unable to save him and his death was confirmed by the public prosecutor in the nearby municipality of Grasse the following day.
According to Baza's Telegram channel, Zelenov underwent surgery related to undisclosed heart problems in the weeks prior to his death, though no further information was provided.
Zelenov was a co-founder of Don-Stroy, once one of Moscow's most significant real estate investment and development empires.
Having set up Don-Stroy in 1994 shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Zelenov rapidly racked up a fortune and regularly featured on the Forbes list of most wealthy Russians until 2008, when the financial crisis saw Don-Story suffer considerable financial losses.
The circumstances around the real estate tycoon's death are remarkably similar to those of Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former head of Moscow's Aviation Institute (MAI) who is said to have tumbled down a flight of stairs at the institute's headquarters in the Russian capital in September.
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Russians need to look carefully for trip wires as they descend stairs.
I guess if the Neocons can’t win on the battlefield, they’ll take whatever else they can get.
The two taps to the back of the head didn’t help.
Too much of...”le raisin”?
Longer than the Clinton list.
he probably dared to criticize the New Tsar
poor bastard ... this is how police-state dictatorships keep people obeying
The keyword here is 'friends'.
Real friends don't let guests fall down their stairs.
Or offer their guests polonium tea.
I blame the vaccines. (no, not really.)
>> I guess if the Neocons can’t win on the battlefield, they’ll take whatever else they can get. <<
Dmitry Zelenov was anti-war. Therefore, Putin had motive to knock him off; he was the type Western governments should have wanted around. Oligarchs have been taking dirt naps since Putin came in, but now suddenly it’s neocons doing it?
It’s ENTIRELY Democrats’ fault that Russia has turned away from the West. But Russia, having decided that the West’s talk about freedom and dissent is a load of crap and reverted to old form, is not the friend of Western freedom-seekers.
Fortunately for Putin he has a deep bench for his Oligarchy.
Fortunately for Putin he has a deep bench for his Oligarchy.
“But Russia, having decided that the West’s talk about freedom and dissent is a load of crap”
Russia does have that right, as Musk has TOTALLY proven.
if you hate “The West” so much, why are you on an American website??
“...out to dinner with some friends.” You want to be careful of your friends: Rasputin.
Very strange. However I lost a former classmate who fell down some stairs in France and sustained head injuries, and passed away...about 4 years ago.
“if you hate “The West” so much, why are you on an American website??”
If you SUPPORT the policies of the present regime in DC, why are you on a Conservative website?
Perfecto
Oligarchs and open minded generals are a direct threat to Putin.
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