Alexander Tyunin, chief executive of a Russian carbon fiber and composites company affiliated with state nuclear giant Rosatom, was discovered dead on Thursday near his car in the Moscow region.

A hunting rifle and a note referencing long-term depression were found nearby.

Authorities say they are treating the case as a possible suicide.

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[–] 76 points 1 year ago (1 child)

A hunting rifle...


Ballistics reports indicate that he shot himself at a distance of roughly 400 meters. He then walked backwards to the location of the rifle in a pair of someone else's boots and clumsily signed the note before expiring. Very sad.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I wonder why all the house cleaning by russian boss men? Ukraine related? Or just power struggles, loyalties to prighozin or some now disfavored faction?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I imagine they're starting to have loyalty issues. Seemingly endless war to which they can't seem to win, complete drain on the economy. There's got to be Rumblings. So you kill some people they're talking too loud I guess, or people who don't tow the party line strong enough.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I bet they went through all the messaging of prigozin and everybody else through what they thought were secure messaging channels and that could be part of this, that is pure conjecture.

    My point is I believe the boss is paranoid and searching and lashing out at anyone he suspects of disloyalty.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    What's mysterious about it? As it's said in Russian, it's a fight between a toad and a snake.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Classic Putin suicide.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    From the thumbnail I thought it was Hegseth 🙄

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    “Mysterious”. Mysterious will probably be the next wave of republican control tactics.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Suicide... Sure and I'm the king of England...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    What kind of present did he not hand over to Putin? His daughters?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wonder when we'll see this happening in the US of Assholes.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    hmmmmm how very mysterious. reckon they'll unmask this fiend sharpish, 'course !

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    Really sad seeing what censorship does to a nation.

    China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, all of them do heinous things and we only get to see what leaks out because none of them have a free press.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Was there a window involved?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Did he accidentally ate some plutonium?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Oh no! Anyways….

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