Another high-ranking Russian official died after being found under the window of his skyscraper, Russian reports said on Thursday.
The body of 58-year-old Marina Yankina, head of the financial support department of St. Petersburg’s Western Military District, was reportedly found on Wednesday in what one report described as a “suicide” after she fell from her home on the 16th floor. .
Other reports noted that suicide as the cause of death had not been confirmed.
Police have not confirmed the cause of death of Russian defense officer Marina Yankina, who died on February 15, 2023 in St. Petersburg. (Frank Fife/AFP via Getty Images)
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Yankina’s death is just the latest in a string of mysterious Russian deaths, many of which have been caused by the victims supposedly falling to their deaths.
Pavel Antov, a sausage magnate and local politician, was found dead in December after falling from a hotel window in India. His partner, Vladimir Budanov, also died the same day after suffering a stroke.
Antov had been critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Ivan Pechorin, the chief executive officer of an airline, was found dead in September after falling off a boat while intoxicated.
President Vladimir Putin and Ravil Maganov in the Kremlin November 21, 2019. Maganov, a critic of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, died under mysterious circumstances in September 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Two weeks earlier, Ravil Maganov, chairman of the Russian oil giant Lukoil, had died after falling from the window of a Moscow hospital.
In August, businessman and Putin critic Dan Rapoport reportedly jumped to his death from his apartment in Washington, D.C.
“This mysterious death of Marina Yankina is consistent with Russia’s intelligence doctrine of ‘wet business’ — or bloodshed,” Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer for Russian, told Fox News Digital. Doctrine & Strategy.
Koffler explained that this doctrine dates back to the Soviet Union, when secret police targeted state critics or dissidents they deemed “enemies of the people” and eliminated them by violent means.
President Vladimir Putin speaks during a video conference call outside Moscow on January 30. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin pool photo via AP)
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“In today’s Russia Putin’s critics and those who are unwilling to accept his policies are routinely eliminated by assassination,” he said. “Blows to the back of the head, poisoning, forced suicides and other intricate forms of violent death are some examples.”
“Throwing someone out a window or having the victim jump out a window is a standard method,” Koffler added.
Prior to her job with the Defense Department, Yankina reportedly worked at the Federal Tax Service and served as deputy chairman of the St. Petersburg property relations committee.
It is unclear whether Yankina was critical of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Paul Best contributed to this report.
