Posted on 10/24/2023 7:09:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Another top executive at Russia's second largest oil company has died mysteriously - the third tycoon at Lukoil to perish under suspicious circumstances within a year and a half.
Vladimir Nekrasov, 66, chairman of the Lukoil board of directors, died 'suddenly', with Russian state media reporting the 'preliminary' conclusion of doctors was that he suffered 'acute heart failure'.
His death follows that of Ravil Maganov, 67, at Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin clinic, in September last year.
Officially, Maganov had been in hospital for a long-standing heart problem and fell from a sixth-floor window, dying on the spot.
On the same morning, Vladimir Putin - who had earlier decorated Maganov with a top honour - swept into the hospital to pay his final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who had died the same week.
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May after 'taking advice from shamans'.
One theory is that Subbotin - who also owned a shipping company - was poisoned by toad venom, triggering a heart attack.
Lukoil initially appeared less than loyal to Putin when the war started, demanding negotiations to end the fighting.
One week into the fighting, the company's board - including both Nekrasov and Maganov - issued a statement on Putin's invasion, expressing its 'concern over the ongoing tragic events in Ukraine and its deepest sympathy to all those affected by this tragedy'.
It added: 'We are in favour of early cessation of the armed conflict and fully support its resolution through negotiation process and diplomatic means.'
There have been claims of 'creeping nationalisation' at Lukoil.
Nekrasov - who had been honoured by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev - took over from Maganov as chairman.
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Those Russian jabs will do it every time.
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At the time Nekrasov was Lukoil’s vice president, and had previously been awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th degree.
Nekrasov, who held two separate EU passports, for Austria and the Czech Republic, as well as his Russian citizenship, avoided sanctions by the West over the war.
There has been a spate of deaths of prominent Russians linked to the energy and finance sectors since the start of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Among other cases, in April wealthy Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official, appeared to have taken his own life after killing his wife Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13.
He had high-level links to the Russian financial institution Gazprombank.
Friends have disputed reports that he was jealous after his wife admitted she was pregnant by their driver.
There are claims he had access to the financial secrets of the Kremlin elite.
Several days later multi-millionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain after allegedly killing his wife Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria, with an axe in a grisly murder-suicide.
He was a former deputy chairman of Novatek, a company also closely linked to the Kremlin.
As with Avayev, it is suggested this may have been an assassination made to appear like a murder-suicide.
Yevgeny Palant, 47, a mobile phone multi-millionaire, and his wife Olga, 50, both Ukrainian-born, were found with multiple knife wounds by their daughter Polina, 20.
Thought I read on FR that Putin had suffered cardiac arrest..looks like he is still getting around.
We just make up some crap and ruin your life, maybe even stick you in prison if you get to close for comfort for those at the top (think Oath Takers, Proud Boys leaders...).
Russian culture isn’t much for nuance and subtlety. Sure makes their road rage YouTube videos worth watching!
But at least we don’t kill folks all that often in our political games, assuming the deaths around the Clinton’s, Epstein and some other cases were mostly real suicides or accidents...
no one is allowed to talk bad about Stalin... I mean Putin
Must be Kremlin Flu Season.
“One theory is that Subbotin - who also owned a shipping company - was poisoned by toad venom, triggering a heart attack.”
Perhaps it was the polonium sandwich he had for lunch?
I must have missed that part about Christians like Putin (ha!) being permitted to kill people at will. Was that in the Sermon on the Mount? Maybe it’s a Russian Orthodox thing.
Putin has the Cross in his hand and the devil in his heart.
Contact Ukraine and tell them what he is doing and that to frustrate that freeper they can go ahead and end their nation by surrendering to the Russians and ending their fight for freedom.
Died suddenly? Well, that’s not as unusual and suspicious as it used to be. Happens all the time these days.
Huh?
Where does Putin’s faux Christianity have to do with Ukraine?
How do you say arkancide in Russian?
He probably had a bad case of window-itis.
This:
“Putin has the Cross in his hand and the devil in his heart.”
Keep your thoughts to yourself and live a long life.
Regards,
Vlad
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