The list of Russian oligarchs who die in suspicious circumstances continues to grow. The latest was Ravil Maganov, chairman and vice chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s second largest oil company and one of the few companies to publicly criticize the Ukraine invasion. The man, who had suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized, is said to have died after falling from a sixth-floor window of the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital.advanced, this Thursday, the Russian state agency TASS, which said that the man had committed suicide.

Thus, there have been nine deaths of Russian tycoons since the beginning of the war, many of them died in identical circumstances (almost all, suicide), and there are even cases with very close dates. The victims are executives or former executives with high positions, mainly in the oil and gas industry, those most affected by the sanctions imposed by the West on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine. Russian dissidents believe it was a purge carried out by Vladimir Putin.

Alexander Subbotin

Former top executive of the Lukoil oil company, Alexander Subbotin, was found dead on May 10 in a shaman’s house in Mytischchi, Russia, according to the Russian state agency TASS. The man died of a heart attack, authorities said at the time. According to the same agency, Subbotin came to this house to undergo hangover treatment, which included cutting his skin and exposing the wound to frog venom, a powerful toxin-rich hallucinogen with psychedelic properties. He was found dead the next day by two shamans.

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