Posted on 07/07/2025 11:22:38 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian’s transport minister was found dead from a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, investigators said Monday — news that broke hours after the Kremlin announced he had been dismissed by President Vladimir Putin.
The Kremlin did not give a reason for the firing of Roman Starovoit, who served as transport minister since May 2024, and it was unclear when exactly he died and whether it was related to an investigation into alleged corruption, as some Russian media suggested.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, the top criminal investigation agency, said the body of Starovoit, 53, was found with a gunshot wound in his car parked in Odintsovo, a neighborhood just west of the capital where many members of Russia’s elite live. A gun previously presented to him as an official gift was reportedly found next to his body.
A criminal probe was launched into the death, and investigators saw suicide as the most likely cause, according to committee’s spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko, who did not say when Starovoit died.
Law enforcement agents were seen carrying Starovoit’s body from the site Monday evening.
Andrei Kartapolov, a former deputy defense minister who heads a defense committee in the lower house of parliament, told news outlet RTVI that Starovoit killed himself “quite a while ago,” and some Russian media alleged that he may have taken his life before the publication of Putin’s decree firing him. Starovoit was last seen in public Sunday morning, when an official video from the ministry’s situation room featured him receiving reports from officials.
Speculation swirls over reasons for Starovoit’s dismissal
Russian media have reported that Starovoit’s dismissal could have been linked to an investigation into the embezzlement of state funds allocated for building fortifications in the Kursk region, where he served as governor before becoming...
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Was his name ‘Dropov’?...............
Russian minister Roman Starovoit kills himself with Kremlin-gifted gun hours after being dismissed by Putin
Starovoit was found with a gun that was an official gift from the Kremlin, officials said.
Suicide… Vince Foster style.
I could easily see a scenario where he was told to kill himself, or else he and his whole family would be killed. And then no one could prove it wasn’t a suicide.
Yeah suicide right.
He had no client list so he suicided.
Knives out in Moscow, as the search for scapegoats accelerates.
More scapegoats will be needed, as more economic and financial crises hit the fan, and as drones land in Moscow.
Factions will have to fight to maintain their position, or they will be the bill payers for scapegoats.
Knives out comrade. Strike first.
Arkincide reaches everywhere.
Wonder what the connection he had with the Clinton.
Like Frankie Five Angels?
Suffered 3 gunshot wounds to the back of the head in his suicide?
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Prokrosk looking to fall next.
Must be a new strategy by Ukies.
Did he have a list of clients, or a bunch of videos on his desk?
He didn’t fall out of a window????
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