Russian oligarch found dead in Moscow after falling out of window
www.newsweek.com
Former vice president of Yukos Mikhail Rogachev died in Moscow, state media reported.
  • Admiral PatrickEnglish
    161•7 months ago

    Headline: Russian Oligarch Found Dead in Moscow after Falling Out of Window

    “Do you know how little that narrows it down?”

    • paraphrandEnglish
      47•7 months ago

      “Marked as suspected duplicate, needs more details.”

  • LadEnglish
    33•6 months ago

    Some day a Russian public figure really will accidentally fall to their death out a window, but everyone will still think it’s an assassination lmao

  • Flying SquidEnglish
    43•7 months ago

    Windows are just so unsafe in Russia, aren’t they? I’m never getting near one if I ever go to Moscow.

    • r00ty
      20•7 months ago

      Well. You’d need to avoid windows, tea, people with umbrellas (OK not directly Russian, but soviet era eastern europe), aeroplanes, cars. And if they really want to get you, they’ll go old school and use a gun, or perhaps even a missile if you annoy the right people enough.

      I’d just skip Moscow as a whole personally.

    • @jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21•7 months ago

      Windows are just so unsafe in Russia, aren’t they? I’m never getting near one if I ever go[ing] to Moscow.

      • @Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        -1•6 months ago

        Windows are just so unsafe in Russia, aren’t they? I’m never getting near one if I ever go to Moscow.

      • Flying SquidEnglish
        43•7 months ago

        I’d love to go to Moscow. From all I’ve seen, it’s a beautiful city. I’d also love to go to St. Petersburg and see the Hermitage.

        But not while Putin is in power. Maybe one day when elections are fair and queer people aren’t oppressed, but I won’t be holding my breath for that happening in my lifetime sadly.

        • andrew_bidlawEnglish
          16•7 months ago

          If I’d outlive the gramps sending us to kill and die, it’d be a pleasure for me to show you and other lemmings around. Russia has many sight to see and adore, to fall in love even, mostly in St. Petes as I’m biased against Moscow. If at any point I’d not be persecuted for printing that comment, I’d gladly do it on the house.

          Peterhoff is one of the most popular tourist destinations there if you want to google some photos. A mansion where every room is designed in it’s own royal-tier style to cringe at. And that complex is surrounded with a huge walking park with old trees, marble statues and beatiful fontains, some of them are made to shoot at random from the ground to confuse visitors, all of that sitting right at the shore.

          • Flying SquidEnglish
            13•7 months ago

            My dad was invited to a conference in St. Petersburg when it was still Leningrad after Glasnost. He was well-traveled, but talked about how the two most beautiful cities he ever saw in his life were Leningrad and Sarajevo. He openly wept when the latter was destroyed during the war in the Balkans.

            • andrew_bidlawEnglish
              12•7 months ago

              I hope we’d fucking stop before he’d cry once more at the ruins of Piter. This town still has historical markings about what side of the street to follow and where to hide from the WW2, and still…

        • @InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15•7 months ago

          Maybe one day when elections are fair and queer people aren’t oppressed, but I won’t be holding my breath for that happening in my lifetime sadly.

          Yeah, work wanted to send me, but I’m not white and also not suicidal window-proof.

        • @jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3•7 months ago

          Oh yes, the avoidance is entirely for governmental reasons. There is so much that would be interesting to see otherwise. Sadly it seems to be a repeating theme in Russian history where some change happens that seems like the ordinary people are finally starting to get some freedom and stability but then some authoritarian gets in power and cracks down on any dissenting views, even minor. I guess outsiders have to catch it during the right window of time.

          • Flying SquidEnglish
            6•7 months ago

            I’d like to go to Kamchatka just so I can tell them that they’re the most useless space in Risk.

            Also, apparently there’s lots of volcanoes and stuff.

  • @Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•6 months ago

    The reason you know Hillary Clinton never killed anyone is because modern US republicans actually love murderers.

  • ms.laneEnglish
    53•7 months ago

    Oligarch: Putin what is going on with the war? Why are we losing?

    Putin: Oh wow look, an Eagle, just out there, wow majestic plumage, you should come and see…