Top Russian economist dies after falling out of window

Oh dear! Another one. Windows are so dangerous in Russia.

Why kill the economist, Pooty? You're the one who killed your economy with your shitty decisions.

I guess the truth about Russia's financial future was just too much reality for him to handle, and it's easier to pretend it away when the economists are scared for their lives enough to lie to you about it all.

Yeah, she probably just told the truth, i.e. that a war economy might look really appealing once the initial figures come out, but is a recipe for ruin in the long term.

[quote]it was not possible to save her, the injuries she received were incompatible with life

Like reading an Onion article.

The world should come together to fund a PSA campaign advising Russian citizens not to stand next to open windows.

Defenestration

Imagine being that intelligence officer who has to drag an 82-year-old lady to the window and toss her out. And still they won't think "am I the bad guy here?" because they're just doing their job and everything is justifiable when you're defending Mother Russia.

Not defending Mother Russia, Putin's NEW Five Year Plan.

the average Russian is latently suicidal, i could buy the idea that they're prone to suddenly jumping out of windows. they don't have the gene that values life.

r8 I mean, once you've made it to 82, I'm pretty sure you're in it to the end. And it's not like she was some loser, she was the leading research fellow at their most prestigious academic institution.

If you follow the links in that story, dozens of officials and oligarchs have died under mysterious circumstances since 2017. Many since the war in Ukraine began. Remember, this is what Republicans look up to, now.

I want to direct a horror film where a sentient window sneaks around Moscow, jumping in front of people walking and causing them to fall out of it.

"Well, just toddling into my broom closet - ARRRRGH!!!!!"

I'd call it NIGHT OF THE DOUBLE GLAZING.

"In Soviet Russia, window open you!!"

[quote] In Soviet Russia, window open you

If I were Russian, I would never enter a building unless it looked like this:

[quote]Imagine being that intelligence officer who has to drag an 82-year-old lady to the window and toss her out. And still they won't think "am I the bad guy here?"

They'll think, "If I don't follow orders, it'll be me being dragged here very soon."

Based on what I've been reading, the whole country is a huge gulag with invisible fences. People are encouraged to report all "unpatriotic activity", everybody is extremely careful about what they say, basically like in the Soviet era but even worse, since Putin doesn't even bother with lending any level of credibility to his sham trials and political murders.

r14, Лети, бабушка, лети! Is the new Russian witch dunking stool.

Sounds like East Germany

I wonder if a single one of these defenestrations has ever been investigated by the police, or do they just shrug and record them all as suicides? (Rhetorical question.)

Other than dying in a "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine, falling out of windows must be the leading cause of death in Russia, followed closely by alcohol poisoning.

Even sadder because she lived on the first floor.

I think of defenestration as Czech, but I guess pan-Slavic now?

[quote]dozens of officials and oligarchs have died under mysterious circumstances since 2017. Many since the war in Ukraine began. Remember, this is what Republicans look up to, now.

Those pro-Putin Republicans will find a way to blame Zelenskyy and his government for those mysterious deaths.

If Trump was ever Putin's tool, back when he was president, I think Putin has now decided that Trump is too much of a pain in the ass to deal with. Enough with the damned (blue bubble) Putin references.

You think wrong, R23.

Defenestration, nerve poisons and downing aircraft are the Putin trinity of opposition removal.

“I fall out vindow, it was accident….”