Prominent Russians dying: "Accidents" and "suicides"

New York magazine

Matt Stieb in New York magazine:

 ....Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, around 15 Russian oil executives and bankers have died in at least moderately suspicious circumstances. 

In August, the Latvian Putin critic and banker Dan Rapoport fell to his death from his apartment in Washington, D.C. — though police say there’s no suspicion of foul play. 

Billionaire and former Lukoil executive Alexander Subbotin was found dead in a shaman’s home north of Moscow in May. 

Former Gazprombank VP Vladislav Avayev was found dead of a gunshot wound in April, along with his wife and 13-year-old daughter. 

Also in April, the former executive of Novatek, Sergey Protosenya, was found hanged from a handrail in the courtyard of an apartment in Spain, with his wife and daughter dead inside. The idea that he could have been responsible for the deaths, the company said, bears “no relation to reality”....