The glamorous vice-president of a Russian bank has reportedly plunged to her death after falling from the window of her Moscow apartment.
Kristina Baikova, 28, an executive at Loko-Bank, is just the latest mysterious casualty involving Russia’s top business people.
Ms Baikova allegedly fell from her 11th floor apartment on the Khodynsky Boulevard in the early hours of last Friday. She died instantly at the scene.
The bank executive was with a 34-year-old friend, thought to be named Andrei, at the time of the incident after inviting him over to her home for drink.
An investigation into her death has been launched.
A spate of unexplained deaths of high-ranking energy officials has taken place since the start of Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine in February last year.
In May this year, Russia’s deputy science minister, allegedly a private critic of the ‘fascist’ invasion of Ukraine, died suddenly after falling seriously ill on a flight to Moscow.
Pyotr Kucherenko, 46, was returning from a business trip to Cuba when his plane was forced to make an emergency landing in southern Russia, the Science and Higher Education Ministry said.
Doctors performed CPR but were unable to save the official. His family said the death was linked to an underlying heart condition.
Independent journalist Roman Super wrote after the announcement that his ‘old friend’ had spoken in private about his inability to escape Russia following what he called the ‘fascist invasion’ of Ukraine.
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