Ballet stars, and their notoriously poor balance.
He seems to have astonishing balance for someone with one leg
Stay on the ground floor, Russians.
Heart attacks happens on every floor.
So do poisonings, and shootings but we're just mitigating circumstances here lol.
There could always be a feral bullet that has ran away from it's gun!
"Tragically fell from the ground floor balcony and landed on two bullets to the back of the head."
A nice window to the future for US citizens critical of their government... a window ripe for defenestration...
If I die mysteriously from a fall, please refer to this comment.
Actually you will probably die in a Tesla whose doors do not open https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/friends-trapped-in-tesla-burned-to-death-when-electronic-doors-failed-to-open-after-crash/ar-AA1tWPYH
Or which just hits you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/
I mean now where Teslas are probably the next mandatory car for state officials. And after some "Think Tank" will be pretty sure that all the saftey fuss about autopilots is bad for the economy.
They don't have any budget to do it differently or it's a power move, like, it's not official but you know it?
It's a calling card. Everyone knows what happened, not a single soul will comment on it. Unless they fancy being the next up for flight lessons.
I wonder how Red Bull sales are in Russia.
What do you think Trump's calling card will be? McDonalds induced heart attack?
Government issued tesla drove into a lake and drowned the occupants.
"haha no problem, this is polonium tea"
don't worry this is just normal tea I offer before I throw you off building
This isn't funny.
You're just blessed enough not to recognize gallows humor. We're actually jealous of you.
I mean ballet dancers are known for being klutzy and prone to tripping over their own feet. Right?
I imagine Russia is like the Star Wars setting, lots of crazy steep drops and they never install railings.
The platform where Darth Vader confronts Luke has railings, so they clearly have the parts, tools, and a guy who installs them. Maybe he's just held up on Level B?
Or maybe they literally one have that one guy/gal installing the railings throughout the entire Republic‽
Russia be slippery. My heart goes out to these rare brave souls in a land of cowards.
In another article emergency services responded with this gem.
He died a natural death. It’s not a crime.
cause of death: the natural impact of cement on the body experienced after a perfectly natural fall
This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.
Good news Russias economy is in the toilet and someone has started flushing already, Ukrain will prevail and hopefully we'll have peace one day.
More realistically, he'll probably die of old age or be ousted by someone younger and more exciting to the wealthy elite that keep Putin in power. Real change may come after that, but a change in leadership is not going to immediately fix long term issues like corruption, wealth disparity, etc.
I think they will become a Chinese vassal.
I don't know exactly what that'd look like, but the pure economic/political dynamics make it seem kinda inevitable.
"in an apparent suicide, putin critic ________ shot himself in the back 20 times. more at 11"
He's gonna do it again at 11? Damn, that's super sus.
Gotta give him time to reload.
So many people fall from their windows or balconies in Russia that I am surprised they are still legal
Someone pushed for a new law outlawing them, but the efforts ended after he accidentally fell off a balcony to his death.
It's to make the point that they were murdered. It's a fear tactic with plausible deniability.
That's the second addition this week: Suspicious deaths of notable Russians
How long before windows make it to the statistics of average deaths per-year in Russia?
Again? That's another reason to uninstall all windows. Especially in Russia.
They really could use some railings over there.
As far as I read, he had a ~~leg~~ spinal injury and an operation scheduled (bad stuff for a ballet dancer - you can't work with an injured ~~leg~~ spine) and was experiencing difficulties with alcohol and painkillers (the latter for the injury). He might have felt that his career was doomed.
As far as I read, he called his girlfriend (or maybe ex-wife, as the article suggests) and asked her to visit him. When she arrived, he had already fallen.
He was characterized as optimistic and nobody had noticed a death wish. Then again, during injury, pain, inability to work, (self-)medication and maybe withdrawal symptoms, other people's predictions of character may not entirely apply to every person.
The balcony was described as not the safest place on Earth. It doesn't require a detective to suspect that being under the influence of strong painkillers might increase the risk.
He can't be characterized as an opposition figure, or a figure of power. There is no clear beneficiary or motive.
As for war and statements against it - he was an artist, a dancer in a publicly funded theatre, and limited by that in what he could say without losing his job. Since it seems that he had reasonable political opinions, inability to voice them without experiencing retribution probably didn't make him cheerful.
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