{"id":164565,"date":"2022-09-29T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=164565"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:25:30","slug":"russian-railway-exec-52-found-shot-dead-in-latest-suspicious-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/russian-railway-exec-52-found-shot-dead-in-latest-suspicious-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian railway exec, 52, found shot dead in latest suspicious suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The latest member of Russia&#8217;s suspicious suicide squad? Railway executive, 52, is found shot dead on the balcony of his Moscow home<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, found dead at his home in Moscow on Wednesday morning<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pchelnikov, a railway PR executive, found with gunshot wounds on his balcony\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Death has been deemed a suicide, but investigators have not disclosed motive\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He is at least the tenth Russian executive to die in suspicious circumstances since Putin invaded Ukraine in late February\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Russian executive has been found dead on the balcony of his Moscow home &#8211; just the latest in a series of &#8216;suicides&#8217; that appear suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, a PR manager for the Russian Railways, was found shot dead at his home in the leafy Kolomenskaya Embankment neighbourhood early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It makes him at least the tenth high-profile Russian to have met their death in mysterious circumstances since Putin invaded Ukraine back in February.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/29\/15\/62931807-11263123-image-a-54_1664463224247.jpg\" height=\"635\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, a railways PR executive, has been found dead at his home in Moscow in what has been deemed a &#8216;suicide&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/29\/15\/62931831-11263123-image-a-61_1664463274729.jpg\" height=\"405\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/29\/15\/62931821-11263123-image-m-60_1664463267633.jpg\" height=\"405\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Pchelnikov had been on holiday with his family recently (left) and his death has been branded suspicious, just the latest in a line of &#8216;suicides&#8217; among Russia executives that raise questions<\/p>\n<p>Pchelnikov had boasted about being\u00a0&#8216;the most experienced PR manager in Russian Railways company&#8217; and went on holiday with his family just a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>He had uploaded smiling images of himself while on vacation to social media in the weeks before he died.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation concluded that Pchelnikov had killed himself, but gave no details and did not explain his motive. A full investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p>On 1 September, oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67,fell to his death from the sixth floor window of a Moscow hospital.<\/p>\n<p>One report says the chairman of Lukoil &#8211; Russia&#8217;s second largest oil company &#8211; was &#8216;beaten&#8217; before he was &#8216;thrown out of a window&#8217;, however this is not confirmed officially.<\/p>\n<p>His company had voiced opposition to the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, Putin arrived at the elite Central Clinical Hospital very soon after Maganov&#8217;s body was found to pay his last respects to final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who had died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Yuri Voronov, 61, head of a transport and logistics company for a Gazprom-linked company, was found dead in his swimming pool, with a leading friend who is a top criminologist warning of foul play.<\/p>\n<p>Two more deaths of Gazprom-linked executives were reported in elite homes near St Petersburg amid suspicions that apparent suicides may have been murders.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior Gazprom financial and security official at deputy general director level, was discovered by his lover the day after war started in Ukraine in February.<\/p>\n<p>His neck was in a noose in his \u00a3500,000 home .<\/p>\n<p>Yet reports say he had been badly beaten shortly before he &#8216;took his own life&#8217;, leading to speculation he was under intense pressure.<\/p>\n<p>In the same elite Leninsky gated housing development in Leningrad region three weeks earlier, Leonid Shulman, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Invest, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood on his bathroom floor.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to Kremlin-friendly energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May after &#8216;taking advice from shamans&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>One theory is that Subbotin &#8211; who also owned a shipping company &#8211; was poisoned by toad venom triggering a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>In April, wealthy Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official, appeared to have taken his own life after killing his wife Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13.<\/p>\n<p>He had high level links to leading Russian financial institution Gazprombank.<\/p>\n<p>Friends have disputed reports that he was jealous after his wife admitted she was pregnant by their driver.<\/p>\n<p>There are claims he had access to the financial secrets of the Kremlin elite.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/12\/15\/62324001-11203945-image-m-55_1662993447506.jpg\" height=\"528\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Yuri Voronov, 61, was found dead in August\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/29\/15\/62323997-11263123-Top_manager_of_Gazprom_Alexander_Tyulakov_61_found_dead_in_his_m-m-64_1664463352644.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"306\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/29\/15\/62324011-11263123-Top_manager_of_Gazprom_Leonid_Shulman_60_found_dead_in_his_mansi-a-65_1664463361510.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Two more deaths of Gazprom-linked executives were reported in elite homes near St Petersburg, stoking suspicions that the deaths may well have been murders<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/29\/15\/62324005-11263123-Billionaire_Alexander_Subbotin_43_former_top_executive_with_ener-m-67_1664463377586.jpg\" height=\"356\" width=\"633\"><\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43 former top executive with energy giant Lukoil, died in May<\/p>\n<p>Several days later multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain, after evidently killing with an axe his wife Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria.<\/p>\n<p>He was a former deputy chairman of Novatek, a company also closely linked to the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p>There have also been questions over the death of Putin&#8217;s point man for developing Russia&#8217;s vast Arctic resources who &#8216;fell overboard&#8217; to his death from a boat sailing off the country&#8217;s Pacific coast.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Pechorin, 39, had recently attended a major conference hosted by the Kremlin warmonger in Vladivostok.<\/p>\n<p>The high-flyer was managing director of Putin&#8217;s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>And in another case a mobile phone multi-millionaire and his wife were found stabbed to death, with the official version of events raising questions.<\/p>\n<p>Naked Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his wife Olga, 50, both Ukrainian-born, were found with multiple knife wounds by their daughter Polina, 20.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate briefing to the media claimed the woman took her own life in a jealous rage after Palant said he was leaving her.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this was strongly disputed by the couple&#8217;s best friend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/12\/15\/62323999-11203945-image-a-57_1662993544565.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former Kremlin official and Gazprombank vice-president Vladislav Avayev, 51, appeared to have taken his own life after killing his wife and one of his daughters in April<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/12\/15\/62323991-11203945-image-a-58_1662993663206.jpg\" height=\"435\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russian gas tycoon Sergey Protosenya (pictured), his wife Natalya, 53, and their teenage daughter Maria were found dead in their Spanish mansion, in Lloret de Mar, on April 19<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2022\/09\/12\/15\/62323987-11203945-image-m-60_1662993716426.jpg\" height=\"481\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian born\u00a0multi-millionaire Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his wife Olga Palant, 50, were found stabbed to death in their family house in Moscow region last week<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11263123\/Russian-railway-executive-52-shot-dead-latest-suspicious-suicide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest member of Russia&#8217;s suspicious suicide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russian railway 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