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Sacked Russian Police General Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
The Moscow Times ^ | February 14, 2023 | Staff Report

Posted on 02/17/2023 4:11:48 AM PST by Timber Rattler

A former Russian police general who had been in charge of cracking down on protesters has been found dead in an apparent suicide following his dismissal by President Vladimir Putin, state media reported.

Major General Vladimir Makarov, 72, had helped oversee Russia's crackdown on opposition activists in his role as deputy chief of the Russian police's anti-extremism unit.

Putin dismissed Makarov, who was described as “once the main organizer of the ‘hunt’ for opposition activists and inconvenient journalists,” in late January.

Police found Makarov’s body at his suburban home northwest of Moscow on Monday, the state-run TASS news agency reported Monday evening, citing unnamed law enforcement sources.

Police ruled Makarov’s death to be a suicide.

(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: blueandyellowpompoms; demsunitedforukraine; putin; putincide; suicide; zelviswrestleshitler
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Another mysterious Putincide.
1 posted on 02/17/2023 4:11:48 AM PST by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

And he wasn’t even near a window.


2 posted on 02/17/2023 4:14:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it’s the other way”)
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To: Timber Rattler

guess somebody dared to criticize the failing Ukraine War

he forgot that Russia is a police-state dictatorship, not a free country


3 posted on 02/17/2023 4:15:46 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Timber Rattler

Did Pootie get advice from the Clintons, or did the Arkansas grifters learn from Pootie? Inquiring minds want to know!


4 posted on 02/17/2023 4:17:23 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: Timber Rattler
Police ruled Makarov’s death to be a suicide.

Multiple gunshot wounds to the back?

5 posted on 02/17/2023 4:18:27 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Yo-Yo

He was tutored by Vince Foster


6 posted on 02/17/2023 4:24:34 AM PST by albie
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To: Timber Rattler

Here in the US it would have been ruled a COVID death.


7 posted on 02/17/2023 4:25:32 AM PST by Marko413
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To: Timber Rattler

Might have angered some anti-Putin folks along the way.


8 posted on 02/17/2023 4:40:10 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Timber Rattler

The name Beria and the initials NKVD keep coming to mind. Putin longs for the good old days. Looks in his mirror and sees Stalin.


9 posted on 02/17/2023 4:48:58 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)
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To: Timber Rattler

Makarov….

L


10 posted on 02/17/2023 4:49:33 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: canuck_conservative; All
One more, reported on January 26, that I missed:

Former Russian Roscosmos manager burned alive in mystery fire at Moscow apartment

In the early hours of this morning (January 26) the deceased body of a top Russian manager, with links to Russia’s State Space Corporation Roscosmos among others, was found after a fire broke out on the 17th floor of a building on Leningradsky Prospekt, Moscow.

Dmitry Pawochka, 49, who was also associated with Sukhoi, Menatep, Lukoil, Rusdragmeta and other top Russian companies, was found by firefighters tackling the blaze at the elite residential complex, as reported by starhit.ru.

According to early reports, the fire was caused after Pawochka fell asleep with a cigarette.

11 posted on 02/17/2023 4:53:01 AM PST by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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“ …In 2020, there were 45,799 recorded suicides, up from 42,773 in 2014, according to the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). On average, adjusted for age, the annual U.S. suicide rate increased 30% between 2000 and 2020, from 10.4 to 13.5 suicides per 100,000 people….”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States

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Damn… look at the number of people the FBI murdered in the US. Everybody know that people don’t kill themselves in either the US or Russia but are instead murdered by their intelligence agencies. /sarc


12 posted on 02/17/2023 5:22:53 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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curious ... how many people got thrown out of windows in the US in last year?

since you like to compare Russia and the US?

“just sayin”


13 posted on 02/17/2023 5:34:34 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: House Atreides

“I am settling all family business. “

— Vlad


14 posted on 02/17/2023 5:39:06 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: canuck_conservative

“ curious ... how many people got thrown out of windows in the US in last year?”
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Don’t know. maybe you can research that to satisfy your curiosity and let us know. But NOBODY COMMITS SUICIDE IN EITHER THE UNITED STATES OR RUSSIA after they are fired from their lifetime careers but they are instead MURDERED BY THE FBIOR ITS RUSDIAN EQUIVALENT.

Are there suicides amongst YOU, SO VERY FRENCH, CANADIANS?


15 posted on 02/17/2023 5:44:08 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
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To: Timber Rattler

Wow. Back-to-back days. I sure hope Russia saves the world from corruption quickly, while there are some Russians left!


16 posted on 02/17/2023 5:55:55 AM PST by dangus
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To: House Atreides

You do know that yesterday the finance chief of the Russian military fell out of a window, right? She was the FOURTH high-ranking official to fall out of a window since the war began.


17 posted on 02/17/2023 5:58:20 AM PST by dangus
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To: Timber Rattler

Was it a double tap suicide?


18 posted on 02/17/2023 6:22:56 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Timber Rattler

How many times did he shoot himself in the back of his head?


19 posted on 02/17/2023 6:48:50 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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"...the ‘hunt’ for opposition activists and inconvenient journalists,”...

Just saw the same thing on Indeed.com. A buck a head. Make millions. I may sign up.

20 posted on 02/17/2023 8:56:06 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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