Thursday 29 September 2022 04:20 PM Russian railway executive, 52, found shot dead in latest suspicious suicide trends now
A Russian executive has been found dead on the balcony of his Moscow home - just the latest in a series of 'suicides' that appear suspicious.
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.
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.
Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, a railways PR executive, has been found dead at his home in Moscow in what has been deemed a 'suicide'
Pchelnikov had been on holiday with his family recently (left) and his death has been branded suspicious, just the latest in a line of 'suicides' among Russia executives that raise questions
Pchelnikov had boasted about being 'the most experienced PR manager in Russian Railways company' and went on holiday with his family just a month ago.
He had uploaded smiling images of himself while on vacation to social media in the weeks before he died.
A preliminary investigation concluded that Pchelnikov had killed himself, but gave no details and did not explain his motive. A full investigation is underway.
On 1 September, oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67,fell to his death from the sixth floor window of a Moscow hospital.
One report says the chairman of Lukoil - Russia's second largest oil company - was 'beaten' before he was 'thrown out of a window', however this is not confirmed officially.
His company had voiced opposition to the war in Ukraine.
Strangely, Putin arrived at the elite Central Clinical Hospital very soon after Maganov's body was found to pay his last respects to final Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who had died at the hospital.
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.
Two more deaths of Gazprom-linked executives were reported in elite homes near St Petersburg amid suspicions that apparent suicides may have been murders.
Ivan Pechorin, 39, was managing director of Putin's Far East and Arctic Development Corporation, responsible for the development of Russia's resources in the Arctic and the air industry in eastern Russia
Igor Nosov, CEO of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, also died earlier this year in his early 40s, reportedly from a 'stroke'
Ravil Maganov, chairman of Russian oil giant Lukoil, died after falling from a window at Central Clinical Hospital, Moscow (pictured with
