A British-educated singer-songwriter was found dead yesterday after he had fallen from his tenth floor apartment, just after Russian police stormed the building to interview him in the midst of suspicions that he had donated 'funds to the forces of Ukraine'.
Vadim Stroykin, 58, became the newest Russian who took a suspicious timed dive from a high window when the police carried out a search in his flat in Parfenovskaya Street in Central St. Petersburg.
Authorities had started an investigation into the well -known radio presenter and composer Stroykin, which they suspected of 'participation in a terrorist organization' in connection with part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Russian Criminal Code, according to various independent Russian outlets.
He had shared various anti-war reports on social media profiles and the labeled Vladimir Putin a 'B ***** who not only waged war against a brotherly nation, but declared the war to his own people. “
Russian telegram channels who reported his death said that, during the police raid into his house, Stroykin entered a guest room, hurriedly opened a window and committed an irreversible act. ”
Stroykin, born in the Ural Mountains in Russia, forged a career in art, who graduated from British College of Journalism before he became a radio presenter who works for the Yekaterinburg office of the 'Echo van Moscow' station, according to Russian reports and reports A short autobiography published on his website.
There he led a show called 'Anthology of the Author's Song', before releasing various albums and compositions while launching a successful travel agency.
In his later years he moved to St. Petersburg and opened a guitar school before he became an avid anti-war lawyer after the full invasion of Russia in Ukraine in February 2022.
Vadim Stroykin, 58, became the newest Russian who took a suspicious timed dive from a high window when the police carried out a search in his flat in Parfenovskaya Street in Central St. Petersburg
Stroykin, born in the Ural Mountains in Russia, forged a career in art and graduated from the British College of Journalism before he became a radio presenter who works for the Yekaterinburg office of the 'Echo of Moscow' station.
Stroykin joins a horribly long list of Russians to fall their death or life -changing injuries in very irregular circumstances, because the Russian president ordered his troops in Ukraine almost three years ago.
The list includes everyone, from high-ranking government officials, captains of the Russian industry and military leaders to anti-war demonstrators and Kremlin critics.
Earlier this week, a top Russian colonel died after falling 50 ft from a window, while another was seriously injured by a similar fall.
Anti-monopolistic service officer Artur Pryakhin, 56, who had previously been a police colonel, was found dead after he fell out of a window on the fifth floor in Petrozavodsk.
The authorities were reportedly investigated by his death, but official media argued that he died of 'suicide' before an investigation was completed.
In the meantime, Colonel Alexey Zubkov – an employee of the Russian investigation committee – is fighting for his life after he had fallen a window on the fourth floor, according to Telegram -channel VCHK -Oogpu.
Miraculously, Colonel Zubkov was 'consciously' after his fall and 'quickly answered questions', but could not explain the reasons before his dive.
He is head of the Forensic Investigations department, specialized in the study of digital information, with access to detailed information about secret research.
Stroykin agrees with a horribly long list of Russians to have fallen due to their death or life -changing injuries in very irregular circumstances
Artur Pryakhin died after he had fallen out of a window on the fifth floor
Colonel Alexey Zubkov – an employee of the Russian investigation committee – fights for his life after he has fallen 40 ft from a bathroom window
One of the most controversial deaths came in August 2022 when Ravil Maganov, chairman of Lukoil, the second largest oil company in Russia, fell out of a window on the sixth floor in the Elite Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, also known as the Kremlin Clinic .
On the same morning, Putin – who had previously decorated Maganov, 67, with a highest honor – swept the hospital into the final respect to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader who died the same week in the hospital.
In 2023, leading war officer Marina Yankina, 58, was found to be found dead of the Financial Support department of the Western Military District of the Russian Ministry of Defense after he had fallen out of a window on the 16th floor in St. Petersburg.
Former vice-president Mikhail Rogachev also died after he had fallen from his apartment of the tenth floor in Moscow in October 2024.
He had been a senior executive at Yukos, an oil company explained by Putin and his Tawanten.
He was found at the entrance of his building by an employee of the Russian SVR Foreign Intelligence Agency and with injuries that are characteristic of a dive, the local media said.
There have been a number of very suspicious deaths under the political, industrial and military elite of Russia since Putin ordered the full invasion of Ukraine
Pryakhin died after he had fallen out of a window on the fifth floor
TV channels reported that he lived on the tenth floor and that it was a suicide, claiming that he had cancer and left a note – but those reports were intensely refused by his good friends and relatives.
Those close to Rogachev insisted that there were no signs that he was suicidal and that he was in a 'good mood' shortly before his death.
Rogachev had a long and successful career in some of the leading companies after the Soviet Russia.
In 2007 he became deputy general manager of Vladimir Potanin's Norilsk Nickel, with Potanin now the richest man in Russia who was also punished by Great Britain as part of Putin's 'Inner Circle'.
