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.
Yeah, the Defenestrations were a prominent Prague family, who later resettled in Arkansas.
As the saying goes, "It wasn't the fall that killed her..."
-PJ
The painting is by Václav Brozík.
Defenestration. You only live once.
No civilians in Russia are allowed to own guns. The Duma recently passed legislation allowing politicians to have guns up to and including the latest military machine guns. They feel threatened.
The son of a high-ranking official died recently from a medical event. Apparently, his security staff was told to not interfere. When they called it in, they gave the wrong address, so the ambulance never arrived. This was apparently a warning to the father to get with the program. I’d imagine the push out the window group are the Mafia or the Chechens who Putin uses in his terror campaign. The FSB uses a variety of poisons, but I’d imagine they’re not set up to kill on the scale currently being used.
Why would anyone here post Russian propaganda? It makes no sense. You must be wrong somehow.
Do Putin and hillary compare methods?
Da, in Muscowy is state secret kamerad
Those Russian Windows can be quite agressive, grabbing occupants of their buildings and just tossing them out.
Window sills in Russia are all rather loose.
As far as I am aware, Prague isn’t the only city in which people have been defenestrated, but is the only city closely associated by name with the practice.
“Economist Valentina Bondarenko is dead.”
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Generally, when a person’s name ends in “-enko”, that person is Ukrainian.
I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’.
She might have been pushed or she might have jumped. I don’t think she “fell.”
“But according to the Russian sympathizers on here, Russia is having record growth and their manufacturing is top notch.”
The Russian economy is on a sugar high, from rapid monetary expansion, which is typical in wartime. In 1944, Nazi Germany had the fastest growing GDP in Europe.
But they are wasting that money on unproductive war (Guns Vs. Butter), and the resulting inflation will come right out of the living standards of the population.
The month that you pay a family a death gratuity for a fallen soldier, it registers as a bump to GDP, but it is actually a decline in real economic activity in the long term. The same for the Government paying billions for stuff, that they then take out and blow up. Short term it registers as GDP, but actually, you are destroying wealth.
During COVID, most of the world, including the USA, Russia, Europe and China printed extra money to keep the wheels turning, and you can see the inflation in food prices that produced here. Since the start of 2022 (30 months) however, US (M2) money supply shrank a net 3%, and interest rates rose, to rein in the resulting inflation, from the money printing during COVID.
Russia remained on a Ruble printing spree after COVID, piling more inflationary pressure on top of the COVID wave, to pay for their major war. They expanded their M2 money supply a whopping 25% in 2022, and almost another 20% in 2023, and are still expanding it in 2024. Even if they stopped printing today (which they can’t), two more years of steep inflation are already baked into the cake. Their Central Bank has interest rates set at a crushing 16% to fight inflation, and they are expected to raise them to 18% at this Friday’s meeting (26 July).
Dysfunction and dislocation is getting worse in the Russian economy (now the most heavily sanctioned on Earth, surpassing North Korea). There is a lot of churn and full employment in the near term, but the big picture is a bonfire of their wealth and future productive capacity.
“What’s the Russian word for Arkancide?”
Арканцид (Arkantsid)
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