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re: Putins' WRATH; HELL on Earth Prison-Persecution & DEATH of Alexei Navalny
Pro-Putin Russian Senator Vladimir Lebedev Found Dead in 'Terrible Tragedy'
Vladimir Lebedev - who was a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine - was also connected to Lukoil - a company which has lost several of its key leaders in mysterious circumstances during the conflict
BBC 1 DEC 2023
Vladimir Lebedev, who has close ties to the Kremlin, has been found dead following a “heart attack”
A Russian senator with close links to the Kremlin has died suddenly aged 60. Lebedev was a close chum and hunting partner of Sergei Kiriyenko (centre), who was a former prime minister and closely tied to Vladimir Putin
War-backer Vladimir Lebedev had earlier connections to energy giant Lukoil, a company dogged by unexplained or untimely deaths during the war with Ukraine. He had close business ties to Vladimir Nekrasov, 66, chairman of the Lukoil board of directors, who died “suddenly” last month.
Lebedev was also a longstanding friend and hunting partner of Vladimir Putin’s closest Kremlin aide, Sergei Kiriyenko, 61, a former Russian prime minister and the dictator’s deputy chief of staff. On one trip a picture shows how they had slaughtered a brown bear.
The initial cause of Lebedev's death was announced as a “heart attack”. No further details were given. But colleagues indicated he had been healthy and his death came as a “deep shock”. The governor of Nizhny Novgorod region - which Lebedev represented in the senate, or Federation Council - Gleb Nikitin said: “All of us who knew him well and were friends with him were shocked...a terrible tragedy.”
Lebedev had been sanctioned by Britain, the EU and US for his ardent support for Putin’s war against Ukraine.
Lebedev and Kiriyenko were part of a group of devoted Young Communists who came into positions of power after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Earlier this week, a prominent banker Nikolay Vasyov, 42, senior vice president of state-owned Sberbank, died of a “heart attack”. Lebedev earlier held senior management positions in subsidiaries of Lukoil and was close to Vladimir Nekrasov, 66, chairman of the Lukoil board of directors, who last month died “suddenly” of “acute heart failure”.
Nekrasov had appointed him to serve alongside him on the board of Lukoil subsidiary TGC-8. There has been a spate of mysterious Russian deaths - especially linked to the energy and banking sectors - since the war started.
Lukoil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, fell from a window of Moscow’s elite Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin clinic, in September last year.
There were suspicions of murder but officially Maganov had been in hospital for a longstanding heart problem and fell from a sixth floor window, dying on the spot. On the same morning, Putin - who had earlier decorated Maganov with a top honour - swept into the hospital to pay his final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who had died the same week.
Billionaire Alexander Subbotin, 43, also linked to energy giant Lukoil where he was a top manager, was found dead in May 2022 after “taking advice from shamans”. One theory is that Subbotin - who also owned a shipping company - was poisoned by toad venom triggering a heart attack.
Lukoil initially appeared less than loyal to Putin when the war started, demanding negotiations to end the fighting. One week into the fighting, the company’s board including both Nekrasov and Maganov issued a statement on Putin’s invasion which “expresses its concern over the ongoing tragic events in Ukraine and its deepest sympathy to all those affected by this tragedy.
“We are in favour of an early cessation of the armed conflict and fully support its resolution through the negotiation process and diplomatic means.” Nakrasov - who had been honoured by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev - had taken over from Maganov as chairman.
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