Russian anti-war singer dies ‘after falling from window’

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-anti-war-singer-dies-121219999.html

A Russian singer who called Vladimir Putin an “idiot” and allegedly donated to the Ukrainian military has died after falling from the window of his 10th-floor apartment, according to reports.

Vadim Stroykin fell to his death during police searches over his alleged links to Ukraine, Russian media outlets said on Thursday.

He was facing up to 20 years in prison if charged and convicted of supporting a terrorist organisation for his alleged backing of the Ukrainian army, they said.

 

Mr Stroykin is said to have stepped into his kitchen for a glass of water before being found dead on the ground outside.

The 59-year-old musician was not involved in politics but had spoken openly about the war in Ukraine, regularly posting on VK, Russia’s equivalent of Facebook.

“This idiot [Putin] declared war on his own people as well as a brother nation,” he wrote in March 2022. “I don’t wish for his death; I want to see him tried and put in prison.”

Following the death of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, in an Arctic penal colony in February last year, Mr Stroykin wrote: “Bastards.”

 

 

The circumstances of Mr Stroykin’s death are being examined by Russia’s investigative committee. He joins a long list of Russians who have fallen to their deaths in unusual circumstances or in other incidents shrouded in mystery over the last two decades.

People have regularly been convicted for “discrediting the Russian army” in social media posts since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but Russian authorities have stepped up their campaign against opposition in recent months.

Last week, a top Russian colonel died after falling 50ft from a window, while Colonel Alexey Zubkov, an employee of Russia’s investigative vommittee, is fighting for his life after a similar fall.

One of the most high-profile incidents saw Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, fall from a sixth-floor window at an exclusive hospital known as the Kremlin Clinic in 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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What's with these Russians and WINDOWS ????  🤔

[Pete1111]

How it happen?

 

[stevenkesslar]

2 hours ago, Pete1111 said:

How it happen?

 

It is depressing.

I appreciate the article @reader posted about how some of the strong men in Europe are actually on the ropes.  One thing that seems true all over the globe is that people want to throw the bums out, whoever they are, after a long period of COVID + inflation.

But it feels likes the bad guys are winning - everywhere.  That is of course a very US-centric view right now.   I can think of Claudia and Mexico and conclude it would all be very different if Democrats had fought like hell for the working class, like AMLO did.

But, in the US, the bad guys are winning.  Bigly.

That said, I would argue that when it comes to Putin, Trump is actually a plus.  It's a silver lining in all the pain and misery.

I do think there was a serious question about whether Trump is a Russian asset.  In fact, I think he is a Russian asset in the sense that he predictably will do things that weaken America in the world.  But my read of Mueller's investigation is that Republicans, like Barr, were seriously interested in investigating whether they could find evidence that Trump was somehow in bed with Putin.  What they found is that Putin interfered in 2016, and that Trump obstructed Mueller's investigation.  But to me that investigation ended the idea that Trump was somehow bought off by Putin, in an illegal way. 

Putin may have helped Trump financially, through cronies and Russian investors, all along the way.  But that is not breaking the law.  That is just how Trump does business.

I think Trump will just keep Putin off balance.  If I thought Ukraine could actually beat Russia, I would regret Trump's election for that reason.  I think by last Fall it was clear Ukraine could not win.  And they arguably should have taken Milley's advice and sued for peace when Russia was on the back foot a year into the war.  At this point, the polls say Ukrainians would rather have a cold truce  - it is not peace - than a hot war.   Meanwhile, Russia's economy is a mess.  Putin did not even win the battle.  I'd argue the battle showed Putin is a paper tiger, since he could not even beat a weaker neighbor.  There is no evidence Putin is winning the war.

I don't think this gets any better for Russia.  Any more than, in the long run, Afghanistan was a plus for either the USSR or the USA.  So Trump won't antagonize Putin the way Biden and Zelenskyy did.  He'll just let Putin continue to fuck up the Russian economy in the long term.

The question now is whether Trump will do even worse suicidal things for the US.  His Gaza fantasy falls in that category.

It s another tragic example of the bad guys winning.  Bibi decided it was fine to kill thousands of Palestinian babies and have an ethnic cleansing.  And to thwart Biden and basically murder Kamala Harris, at least politically.  And now, just when the Israeli genocide crowd would hope, Trump comes in threatening to evict the ones Bibi didn't murder.