Posted on 07/24/2024 11:03:50 AM PDT by Cronos
Economist Valentina Bondarenko is dead. She fell from her apartment window, the Russian news agency Tass reported. Newsweek called her "Russia's leading economist." She is yet another prominent figure in Russia to die this way since the invasion of Ukraine began.
The tragedy was supposed to have happened on Monday evening, while Russian media reported the woman's death on Tuesday. 82-year-old Bondarenko was a leading researcher at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow - explains the American "Newsweek".
The Russian news agency Tass reported that the economist's fall "had no criminal background. - Valentina Bondarenko fell from the window of her apartment, unfortunately, she could not be saved - said an anonymous source in an interview with the Russian news agency, quoted by the Czech website novinky.cz.
Czech media recall that Bondarenko had been working at the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1988 and was engaged in research on the transformation of socio-economic systems.
A series of unusual deaths Bondarenko is not the first Russian woman to die by falling from a window after Russia went to war in Ukraine. On Christmas Day 2022, Russian politician and meat tycoon Pavel Antov is said to have fallen from a window in India. In June of that year, Antov allegedly criticized Russian airstrikes in Ukraine and described a missile attack on an apartment building in Kiev as “terror.”
A few months earlier, the vice president of the oil company Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, lost his life, falling from a window on the sixth floor of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. Maganov had been a confidant of Vladimir Putin for years. He had worked at Lukoil since 1993, where he became vice president of the oil production company. Since June 2020, he had been chairman of the board of directors. A few years ago, Putin honored him with the Order of Alexander Nevsky, awarded for merits and outstanding social contribution.
There have been more mysterious deaths among the Russian elite. In late January 2022, just before the outbreak of the war, Leonid Shulman, who had been responsible for security at Gazprom Investholding for years, allegedly committed suicide. In his farewell letter, he stated that he had taken his life because of the pain of a broken leg. He supposedly sustained the injury after being beaten by unknown perpetrators.
The day after the attack on Ukraine in St. Petersburg, Alexander Tyulyakov, a former manager of Gazprom, committed suicide. A few days later, relatives found Mikhail Watford, a gas magnate of Ukrainian origin, who had allegedly hanged himself in the garage of his estate in the British town of Surrey. A former director and former vice-president of Gazprombank and a director of Lukoil were also killed.
There seems to be an epidemic...
That’s pretty small potatoes compared to Hillary and Bill.
What’s the Russian word for Arkancide?
Where is Hillary??
Allegedly fell and allegedly died?..............
Russian blogger (in Uzbekistan) Konstantin Samoilov uses “falling out of windows” as a metaphor for all types of suspicious deaths of Russian VIPs. And there is an epidemic of such deaths especially among those who are in the know about how corrupt money flows around.
But she lived in a basement apartment.
Убийство в стиле Арканзаса (ubiistvo v stilye Arkanzasa--Arkansas-style homicide)
Defenestration is a russian favorite.
I am very interested in the story behind the painting you posted???
Yeah, me too, now that you mention it.
Do some research on the “Defenestrations of Prague”. It’s a very long story ...
Never buy windows made in Russia.
Shot while attempting to escape.
Here’s an oldie but a goody. It is in the context of the “mysterious” death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group who launched a rebellion against Moscow:
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1698739642554626422
Economic truth is now a State secret in Russia.
The "rainy day" financial reserve war chest that Putin had saved up (National Wealth Fund) is now sputtering out as a buffer, and several things that Russia had done to kick the can down the road for the bills from the war, are now coming due.
They printed a lot of new rubles, and are now suffering from high inflation and high interest rates (widely expected to be raised again, to 18%, at this Friday's meeting of the Russian Central Bank).
The Russian legislature (Duma) passed new higher individual and corporate tax rates for next year, across the board - and did away with the flat tax system that had been instituted to help Russia's economic recovery, shortly after Putin took power. The "special levies" on the oil and gas industries had already approached the level of effective Nationalization of oil and gas revenues.
Russia is now very short of hard currencies like Dollars, Euros or Yen; and is now dramatically dependent on a single currency, the Chinese Yuan.
Serious economic repercussions are mounting within Russia, and their system is growing more brittle to shocks. Any credible Russian voice that exposes them, is at risk of being silenced by Putin's thugs.
Russia needs to mandate bars on all apartment windows.
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