Alexander Tyunin, a Russian businessman and reputed executive at Khimprominzhiniring, a unit of the state nuclear energy behemoth Rosatom, has been found dead in the Moscow region hamlet of Kokoshkino. The U.S. Sun says that Tyunin’s body was found on the ground with a bullet wound and a rifle nearby. Russian state media has called the event a suicide.
According to reports, police recovered a suicide note at the scene. People think Tyunin wrote the note, which had a message about how he was dealing with despair and his wife’s phone number. “I did it myself. I’ve been fighting depression for five years. It continues getting worse. The note said, “I have no strength left.” Russian officials have not yet made an official statement about the death.
A Part of a Pattern
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, there have been a number of strange deaths of well-known Russians, the most recent being Alexander Tyunin.
Some Telegram accounts that are linked to Russian security forces also said that Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit died in July from a gunshot wound, which was officially called a suicide.
In March, Buvaysar Saitiev, a former MP, apparently fell from a window in Moscow. He was recovered in severe condition and eventually died.
Andrey Badalov, 62, the vice president of Transneft, a state-run pipeline business, is said to have fallen from a fancy high-rise in Moscow in July 2024.
Marina Yankina, 58, a senior finance official at Russia’s Ministry of Defence, died when she fell from a 16th-floor window in St. Petersburg in February 2023.