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Putin critic and his friend found dead in India hotel Antov served as a member of the United Russia party, which was once led by Putin. [another one]
Just The News ^ | By Madeleine Hubbard Updated: December 28, 2022 - 11:32am

Posted on 12/28/2022 8:50:20 AM PST by Red Badger

Pavel Antov, a politician, businessman and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was discovered in a pool of blood outside a hotel in India days after his friend died at that same hotel.

"So far, it seems that Antov accidentally fell from the hotel terrace." the police chief of the eastern Odisha state, Rajesh Pandit, told Agence France-Presse after Antov's death on Monday. "He was probably disturbed by the death of his friend and went to the hotel terrace and likely fell to his death from there."

His friend, Vladimir Bidenov, apparently had a heart attack, possibly caused by binge drinking and drugs, and died two days earlier, Pandit said.

Antov and his friends had been in that region of India since mid-December, the official said.

Before becoming a legislative assembly member for the Vladimir Region, Antov, 65, founded a food processing plant and went on to become the richest Russian civil servant in 2019 with an income of 9.97 billion rubles or $137 million at Wednesday's exchange rate.

Antov served as a member of the United Russia party, which was once led by Putin and is still supportive of him.

In June, he voiced his support for Putin while denying posting an anti-war message on WhatsApp. He said the status was deleted and it had been the result of an "unfortunate misunderstanding and a technical error," CNN reported.

Antov's death follows that of several other prominent Russian businessmen.

Ravil Maganov, chair of Russia's largest private oil company Lukoil, died in September after falling out of a Moscow hospital window, months after his company criticized the invasion of Ukraine.

Alexander Subbotin, another Lukoil manager, was discovered dead in Moscow in May after he reportedly visited a shaman, state-media outlet TASS reported.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: diedsuddenly

1 posted on 12/28/2022 8:50:20 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I have to hand it to Ukraine, they do have their agents all over the place.


2 posted on 12/28/2022 8:54:43 AM PST by BobL
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To: Red Badger

In America they do it a little differently. They ruin you financially. They ruin your reputation. They imprison you. They will also kill you too but most people back down before it comes to that.


3 posted on 12/28/2022 9:00:52 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: McCarthysGhost

Same thing, just a different order of events...........😜


4 posted on 12/28/2022 9:01:37 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BobL
His friend, Vladimir Bidenov..................You can't make this stuff up!...........
5 posted on 12/28/2022 9:02:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

and THIS is why we American sheeple MUST allow the deep-state to muck around on Russia’s borders, blow-out our national debt, and risk starting a nuclear war.

Because Putin is BAD and doesn’t hide his political assassinations as well as the Clintons


6 posted on 12/28/2022 9:03:16 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Red Badger

sounds like a bad part of town


7 posted on 12/28/2022 9:04:46 AM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: PGR88
Because Putin is BAD and doesn’t hide his political assassinations as well as the Clintons

1. He doesn't have to.

2. He doesn't WANT TO!....................

8 posted on 12/28/2022 9:04:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Haha.


9 posted on 12/28/2022 9:09:18 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: mylife

Especially for drunk Russians that criticize Putin.............


10 posted on 12/28/2022 9:10:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Once you start sucking up to a dictator, you have to keep sucking up to the dictator, or he murders you.


11 posted on 12/28/2022 10:00:15 AM PST by babble-on
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To: Red Badger
Seth Rich...Jeffery Epstein...Dozens catching the Clinton suicide virus...
12 posted on 12/28/2022 10:42:31 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Red Badger
Pootie dances to this tune

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust


13 posted on 12/28/2022 10:50:12 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: Red Badger

putin is a killer


14 posted on 12/28/2022 1:39:30 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Red Badger

Putin friend and critic is a dangerous combination


15 posted on 12/28/2022 2:03:39 PM PST by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: McCarthysGhost

“Hello, Suicide Hotline?
This is Hillary.
I’d like to place an order.”


16 posted on 12/28/2022 2:10:47 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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