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Russian War Journalist, 39 Found Dead on a Roadside After Vowing to Release Details of Gigantic Corruption in Latest Mysterious Media-Linked Fatality....
Putin 'Ally' Mysteriously Dies 'Falling' From House Window
Daily Mail 10 JAN 2024
Alexander Rybin had recently visited Mariupol, a city in Ukraine invaded by Russia in 2022
A Russian war journalist has been found dead after vowing to release new details of 'gigantic corruption' in the Vladimir Putin-invaded Ukrainian city Mariupol.
The body of Alexander Rybin, 39, was discovered by a roadside near Shakhty, in Russia's Rostov region, on Saturday.
He is the latest in a series of mysterious media-linked deaths amid the Russian President's war against Ukraine.
Rybin died after a visit to occupied Mariupol in which his on-air report criticised the Putin regime for its slowness in rebuilding the war-blitzed city which the dictator sees as a holiday location for Russians on the Azov Sea.
The reporter - who had backed Putin's annexation of the Donbas region of Ukraine - revealed an influx of immigrants to undertake the reconstruction and huge money pumped in from Russia.
The body of Alexander Rybin, 39, was discovered by a roadside near Shakhty, in Russia 's Rostov region, on January 6, after he spoke out about 'corruption' in Mariupol, a city in eastern Ukraine which was captured by Russian forces in the early months of Putin's 2022 invasion
But he slammed the 'gigantic corruption', and vowed to reveal more details in a live broadcast on left wing online outlet Rabkor after returning to Moscow.
He never got back to the capital.
Instead, he was found dead on a highway near the city of Shakhty, which sits around 20 miles from the Ukrainian border and 130 miles from Mariupol.
Once home to more than 400,000 people, Mariupol was all but raised to the ground by Russia's forces who lay siege to it in the early months of Putin's 2022 invasion.
The city was fully captured by Moscow's forces on May 20, 2022 when the last Ukrainian troops - who had hunkered down in the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works - surrendered to the invading army.
It was the site of a number of shocking incidents in the early days of the war, including the Russian bombing of a maternity hospital and a theatre sheltering hundreds of civilians. Overall, thousands are thought to have been killed.
To this day, the city is a ruin of its former self, with Ukraine estimating around 100,000 people live in its 'apocalyptic' remains, as described by the Red Cross.
Rybin visited Mariupol at the end of last year, reporting from the city.
Officially, his cause of death was given as 'cardiomyopathy' following an autopsy, according to the Russian state media.
His bank cards and valuables had not been removed.
Rybin had fought in invaded Luhansk for pro-Putin forces between 2014 and 2015 but became disillusioned with the so-called 'Russian Spring'.
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On Sunday, it was reported that the corpse of Zoya Konovalova (pictured), 48, chief editor of Russian state TV company Kuban, operating in Krasnodar region close to the war zone, was discovered in her bedroom.
She and her ex-husband - whose body was also found at the scene - had died from 'poisoning', said law enforcement
Last month Ilya Kyva, 46, once a party leader in the Kyiv parliament, was found 'covered in blood' in a suspected assassination near Moscow by Ukrainian secret services.
Images from the scene show Kyva's body lying in the snow - and the weapons used to 'liquidate' him were discovered hanging on a tree nearby
Anna Tsareva, the deputy editor of pro-Putin newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, was found dead by her father after he became worried he hadn't seen her for a couple of days
In September 2022, Anna Tsarevas's boss Vladimir Sungorkin, editor-in-chief and director general of Komsomolskaya Pravda, died of a 'heart attack' after showing signs of suffocation
Putin is Now So Paranoid About Security That His National Guard is FIVE Times The Size of British Army
& EVEN More Paranoid About His Ruinous Economy, That He's Trying to Turn Gulag Camps Into Russian holiday Hotspots...
The Russian government has decided to invest in making the Far East, known for its Stalin-era Gulag prison camps, a holiday hotspot with a new 2,000 room resort being built
In a bid to bolster his ruinous economy, Russian President Vladimir Putin is opening the home of his gulag camps into tourist package holidays.
Since the brute invaded Ukraine in 2022, visa restrictions and closed European airspace have slimmed down the chance for Russians to travel abroad for holidays. Now the government has decided to invest in making the Far East, known for its Stalin-era Gulag prison camps, a new holiday hotspot.
The Times reports that a 2,000-room resort dubbed the Three Volcanoes will be built and 170 newly safety-certified hiking routes have been mapped out. Those wishing to visit from the capital Moscow can now board one of the new routes with Aeroflot. A flight of eight and a half hours to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is just 15,000 roubles (£130).
Authorities are trying to promote the region as the perfect place for those seeking "active, adventure-filled tourism amidst wild nature." But it was just in October that Russians were told they would be sent to the region as a punishment if they said they backed Ukraine in the war. Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the Duma, said:
"Those who left the country and committed despicable acts, wishing victory to the bloody Nazi Kyiv regime, should realise that no one is waiting for them here - but if they do come back, then Magadan will be provided for them."
Magadan is a city in the far north, synonymous with the Gulag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the author of "The Gulag Archipelago", described this area as "the pole of cold and cruelty."
The Times notes that previous attempts to develop the Far East by Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Dmitry Medvedev all failed. Dr Natasha Kuhrt, senior lecturer in international peace and security at King’s College London, told the paper that "little has been achieved."
Airport terminal at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky City
An article last month in the state-run news agency TASS declared the 2023-24 ski season in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Region open. An official told the publication: "This year, outdoor enthusiasts will be able to enjoy seven ski slopes and Kamchatka’s only chairlift." The article boasted about nine ski centres in the region, with 27 ski trails totalling about 380 kilometres.
In another sign of promoting the area, a recent state-run competition asked young Russians to document their travels in the Far East on film for a chance to win a whopping prize of three million roubles (£26,000).
The winner, from the North Korean border region of Primorsky Krai, completed a 17-day solo kayak in the bay around Vladivostok, facing two storms and constant winds. The area’s first five-star hotel is due to open this year in Petropavlovsk, the capital city of the remote Kamchatka region.
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