A politician from the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been found dead in a courtyard outside his home, local media reported Thursday, adding to the growing list of\u00a0Russian elites who have died under unclear circumstances in recent months. <\/p>\n
Vladimir Egorov, a Tobolsk City Duma Deputy from the ruling United Russia party, was reportedly 46 at the time of his death, which was reported by Russian newspaper Kommersant, citing the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Tyumen Region in Russia. <\/p>\n
There were no \u201cexternal signs of criminal death\u201d on Egorov\u2019s body, investigators told Kommersant. The committee \u201ccould not confirm the information about the circumstances of the deputy\u2019s death\u201d to Kommersant, it said, as they are \u201cstill conducting an autopsy.\u201d <\/p>\n
Russian state media TASS meanwhile reported on Thursday that Egorov\u00a0\u201cwas found dead in Tobolsk,\u201d also citing the regional committee. And unofficial Telegram channel\u00a0Baza \u2013 which has links to Russian security services \u2013 said Egorov\u2019s body \u201cwas discovered in the courtyard of his house on Kedrovaya Street\u201d on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Kommersant and TASS reported that investigators are still establishing the causes of Egorov\u2019s death, while the Tobolsk City Duma published an obituary on its social media page Thursday saying that Egorov died \u201cas a result of an accident.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Duma praised Egorov \u2013 its deputy chairman before his death \u2013 for providing \u201ccomprehensive support to the participants of the Special Military Operation and the families of military personnel\u201d fighting in Ukraine and for taking \u201can active part in the social and political life of the city.\u201d <\/p>\n
He joins a list of prominent Russians who have died by suicide or in unexplained accidents in recent months and years, including several businessmen with ties to Russia\u2019s two largest energy companies. <\/p>\n
Among that group was Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Lukoil, Russia\u2019s second biggest oil and gas company, which had previously taken the unusual public stance of speaking out against Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine. Maganov died after falling out of the window of a hospital in Moscow, according to Russian state news agency TASS. <\/p>\n
Russian sausage magnate-turned-lawmaker Pavel Antov, another member of the United Russia party who topped Forbes ranking of the 100 richest civil servants in Russia in 2018, died in India last December after falling from the third floor of his hotel, according to the Indian police. <\/p>\n
Months before his death he had reaffirmed his support for Putin after denying he posted an anti-war message on WhatsApp, blaming an \u201cunfortunate misunderstanding and a technical error.\u201d <\/p>\n
In May, Russian Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education Pyotr Kucherenko died after falling ill on a plane with a Russian delegation returning from a business trip to Cuba. A journalist who said he had spoken with Kucherenko in the months prior to his death said that Kucherenko had felt like a hostage of the Russian government and feared for his own safety. <\/p>\n\n
A politician from the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin has been found dead in a courtyard outside his home, local media reported Thursday, adding to the growing list of\u00a0Russian elites who have died under unclear circumstances in recent months. Vladimir Egorov, a Tobolsk City Duma Deputy from the ruling United Russia party, was reportedly <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}