Where the reports differ is whether Vadim Boyko’s death was a suicide or not. Boyko, the deputy director of the Vladivostok Pacific Naval College, one of only two official military colleges under the Ministry of Defense, was reported to have shot himself from the Far East’s Vedomosti. The pro-democracy newspaper wrote on its Telegram channel that the colonel “came to work and put a bullet in the temple” on Wednesday morning.

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Vladimir Oschenko, the editor of a local television station, also claimed that Boyko died by suicide. Story continues below ad “When officers start shooting themselves, something is wrong with the country and the civil service,” Oschenko wrote in a Facebook post, translated by Business Insider. However, reports from independent Russian media outlet Baza and privately owned online outlet Pravda said Boyko was found with five gunshot wounds to his chest.

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Baza, citing unnamed sources, said an officer on duty heard five gunshots from the congressman’s office, ran inside and found the colonel dead. The agency added that no suicide note was found near the body, although witnesses found five empty cartridges and four Makarov pistols. Boyko was responsible for working with Russian soldiers recruited under Putin’s partial mobilization order to send more troops to Ukraine, Baza said. He is the latest prominent Russian figure to die under mysterious circumstances since Russia invaded Ukraine.

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Recently, the former head of a Russian aviation research university, Anatoly Gerashchenko, died on the grounds of the institute after reportedly falling down a flight of stairs in late September. The Moscow Aviation Institute, where Gerashchenko was serving as a consultant at the time, said the death was accidental. Current trend

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Story continues below ad A few days later, a gunman shot dead a Russian recruiting officer at a recruiting center in Siberia, days after Putin’s mobilization plan went into effect, conscripting hundreds of thousands of civilians to fight in the Ukraine war. Dissatisfaction with the measure sparked anti-conscription protests across the country. Chilling video of the shooting taken from inside the recruiting office shows a man walk up to another man and shoot him once at point-blank range, sending people scattering from the building. The wounded policeman was identified as Alexander Vladimirovich Eliseev by local governor Igor Kobzev.

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At least 10 other high-profile Russians have died this year:

Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, the editor-in-chief of the major state newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, died “suddenly” after appearing to suffocate, according to the paper he used to run. An initial medical examination determined that Sungorkin may have suffered a stroke. The Kremlin called his death “a great loss for Russian journalism.” Ivan Pechorin, an energy executive, died after falling overboard from a speedboat and his body was later found washed ashore on Russky Island in the Sea of ​​Japan. Ravil Maganov, chairman of the board of Russia’s largest private oil company, Lukoil, died after falling from a sixth-floor window of a hospital. Lukoil was one of the few Russian companies to call for an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Alexander Subbotin, a former top manager of Lukoil, was found dead in the basement of a shaman’s house after allegedly being treated for a hangover with toad venom. Sergey Protosenya, a former executive of Novatek, Russia’s largest independent natural gas producer, was found hanged outside a Spanish villa along with the bodies of his wife and 18-year-old daughter. The deaths appeared to be a murder-suicide. Vladislav Avayev, former vice president of Gazprombank, Russia’s third largest bank, was found dead in his Moscow apartment along with the bodies of his wife and 13-year-old daughter. The deaths also appeared to be murder-suicides. Avayev and his family were found the day before Protosenya and his family died. Vasily Melnikov, owner of Medstom, a company that imports medical equipment into Russia, and his family were all found dead in their luxury apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. Melnikov, his wife and their 10-year-old and four-year-old sons had been stabbed to death and the murder weapons were found at the crime scene. Investigators again concluded that the deaths were the result of a murder-suicide. Michael Watford, a Ukrainian-born oligarch who made his millions as an oil and gas tycoon, was found hanged in the garage of his Surrey home, Watford’s wife and children, who were at home at the time, were unharmed . Watford changed his surname from Tolstoseya after moving to the UK in the early 2000s. Alexander Tyulyakov, deputy general director of the Finance Ministry of Gazprom, the world’s largest publicly traded natural gas company, was found hanged in the garage of his country house. A note was found with his body leading investigators to the conclusion that Tyulyakov died by suicide. Leonid Shulman, a top Gazprom executive, was found dead in the bathroom of his holiday home next to an apparent suicide note in the same neighborhood where Tyulyakov would die a month later.

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