Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
Life is not easy in Russia for directors of business and transport companies. Since in 2022 Vladimir Putin ordered the “special operation in Ukraine”, more than a dozen top executives have suddenly lost their lives – allegedly for suicide.
The large -scale invasion of Ukraine has been a period unusual for Russian and senior executives responsible for state and private oil and gas companies.
In these just over three years, death already reaped 13 managers top of companies such as gazprom, lukoil and transneft – in some cases, together with the family closer.
Recently, on July 7, the Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit will alleged in his car, hours after Vladimir Putin fired by decree executive.
Starovoit joins a long list of employees and executives whose deaths were classified as suicides by the authorities – and whose reports the Russian Independent Portal has recently analyzed.
Below is the chronology of the 13 alleged suicides of Russian executives in recent years – which have not always died in windows of windows or poisoned, as it seems to be tradition in Russia.
January 2022: Leonid ShulmanHead of Gazprom Invest Transport Service, was found dead in the bathtub of your country house in a wealthy neighborhood on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.
February 2022: Alexander TyulyakovAssistant Director of the Unified Settlement Center for Corporate Security of Gazprom, was found hanged In the garage of your home in a village of country houses around St. Petersburg.
April 2022: Vladislav Avaevvice president of Gazprombank, was found dead in your apartment in Moscow. The bodies of wife and daughter small were discovered nearby.
April 2022: Sergey Protosenosformerly Novatek’s top manager, it was found dead in your villa in Spain. Yours wife and daughter They were also found murdered in the house.
May 2022: Alexander SubbotinFormer member of the Lukoil Board of Directors, he was found dead in a house in Mytishchi on the outskirts of Moscow. Preliminary reports attributed death to heart failure acute
July 2022: Yuri voronovfounder of Astra-Shipping (GAZPROM subcontractor), was found killed in a pool in a village of country houses in the region of Leniningrad with a bullet wound on the head.
August 2022: Ravil MaganovPresident of the board of directors of Lukoil, fell from a window from a hospital in Moscow where it was receiving treatment.
December 2022: Oleg ZattsepinDirector General of Kogalymneftegaz (Lukoil subsidiary, was Found dead in your office.
February 2023: Vyacheslav Rovneykoco -founder of Urals Energy, oil businessman from the late 1990s and former Business Partner at Boris Yeltsin son -in -law, was found killed in your home At Rublyvka Highway, Moscow’s most exclusive residential area.
October 2023: Vladimir nekrasovPresident of the board of directors of Lukoil, died of acute heart failure.
March 2024: Vitaly Robertuslukoil vice president, was also found killed in your office in Moscow.
July 2025: Andrey Badalovvice-president from Transneft, fell from the window From his apartment at Rublyovskoye Highway in Moscow.
July 2025: Roman Star canfired from his position as Russian Transport Minister, He took his own life in a parking lot on the outskirts of Moscow.
In 13 deaths, only two occurred in – which, together with, are apparently the most common causes of death to Vladimir Putin.
