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Russian Investigative Reporter Dies After Fall From Window; Editor Rejects Suicide
RFE/RL With reporting by Novy Den, RIA Novosti, and Grani.ru ^ | April 15, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 04/15/2018 12:24:44 PM PDT by BeadCounter

Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin of Yekaterinburg has died of injuries sustained on April 12 when he fell from the window of his fifth-floor apartment.

Borodin, 32, died on April 15 in a hospital without recovering consciousness. Officially, his death was being investigated as a suicide.

A Sverdlovsk Oblast police spokesman said it was "unlikely that this story is of a criminal nature."

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: journalists; maksimborodin; putin; russia; yekaterinburg
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1 posted on 04/15/2018 12:24:44 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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“Worst case of suicide I’ve ever seen.”


2 posted on 04/15/2018 12:26:03 PM PDT by dfwgator
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oops ,his shoes came off


3 posted on 04/15/2018 12:26:18 PM PDT by butlerweave
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How’s the Seth Rich investigation going?


4 posted on 04/15/2018 12:27:50 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Seems whenever a Russian is in close proximity to an open window on an upper floor, sh!t happens 🤔🤔🤔
5 posted on 04/15/2018 12:27:54 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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Must be near Fort Marsky Park.


6 posted on 04/15/2018 12:28:49 PM PDT by dfwgator
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After a short push from behind!


7 posted on 04/15/2018 12:29:23 PM PDT by Davy Crocket
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After a short push from behind!

Well, there is that.

8 posted on 04/15/2018 12:30:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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9 posted on 04/15/2018 12:35:27 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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5 floors, 32 years old. Doesn’t seem high enough to kill him.


10 posted on 04/15/2018 12:36:09 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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Was it done in “good Bohemian style”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

that seems to happen a lot in Eastern Europe & Russia!


11 posted on 04/15/2018 12:40:21 PM PDT by Reily
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Did he know the Clintons?


12 posted on 04/15/2018 12:43:29 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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Can you get life insurance in Russia if you’re an investigative reporter? Hell, can you even buy green bananas?


13 posted on 04/15/2018 12:46:57 PM PDT by Yaelle
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Is his next story gonna be about gravity?


14 posted on 04/15/2018 12:51:03 PM PDT by moovova
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15 posted on 04/15/2018 12:52:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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That was done stylishly but it wasn’t done in “Good Bohemian style”!


16 posted on 04/15/2018 12:56:57 PM PDT by Reily
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The Russian judges scored it....


17 posted on 04/15/2018 12:59:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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Who killed Kirov? Stalin asked...but he already knew.


18 posted on 04/15/2018 1:01:05 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Then who can argue!


19 posted on 04/15/2018 1:03:34 PM PDT by Reily
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Sounds like a bad case of the Russian flu. Glad things like that never happen in America.


20 posted on 04/15/2018 1:03:46 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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