# Russian economist dies after falling from window
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 25, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756 "2024-07-25T00:13:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/1 "2024-07-25T00:13:14Z")
It apparently didn’t have anything to do with Ukraine. Just a lady falling to her death. Nothing suspicious here. Happens all the time (in Russia).
Or maybe it really was an accident.
> **[Top Russian economist dies after falling out of window](https://www.newsweek.com/top-russian-economist-dies-after-falling-out-window-1929398)**
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> Several top Russian officials have plunged to their deaths from windows in recent years, including a top oil executive and a defense official.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/2 "2024-07-25T01:25:52Z")
When they die after falling from a basement window it’s suspicious.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/3 "2024-07-25T13:53:28Z")
I thought this sort of thing only happened in Prague.
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### Author:  [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/4 "2024-07-25T13:57:50Z")
No defenestration going on here. Move along. Nothing to see. Sheer coincidence that an economist reporting bear-ish economic forecasts happened to be clumsy and took a tumble out the window. Return to your drinks.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/5 "2024-07-25T14:07:33Z")
The NSB could do it in such a way that it really looked like an accident or natural causes, but I think they make it pretty obvious on purpose so that other “trouble makers” get the message that, “If you keep causing problems, you’d better live on the first floor.” LOL
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### Author:  [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/6 "2024-07-25T14:34:22Z")
I wonder if first floor apartments go for a premium in Russia.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/7 "2024-07-25T14:58:25Z")
That’s the same reason why they were using polonium, for a while there. There are lots of poisons that are both easier to procure, easier to deliver, and harder to detect. Having enough polonium available to be able to use it to assassinate someone is a sign that you’re dealing with one of the major nuclear powers, and it’s not hard to narrow down which one. You can still pound on the table at the UN and insist that there’s no proof that it was you, and swear to find the real killers, while there’s still absolutely no doubt in anyone’s minds that you did it, and will do it again if need be.
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### Author:  [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/8 "2024-07-25T15:15:40Z")
That comes right on the heels\* (Ouch!) of this one:
[**Russian military intelligence officer injured in Moscow car bomb attack, Kommersant says**](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-military-intelligence-officer-injured-moscow-car-bomb-attack-kommersant-2024-07-24/)
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> MOSCOW, July 24 (Reuters) - A car bomb injured an officer from Russia’s military intelligence agency in northern Moscow on Wednesday, the Kommersant newspaper reported.
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> Russia’s interior ministry said that two people were injured in a blast caused by the detonation of an unidentified device and said that a criminal case had been opened.
> State news agency TASS said that an officer and his wife had been injured in the blast. The man’s feet were blown off, according to TASS. Five other cars were damaged in the blast, the agency said.
\*Maybe not chronologically, but … work with me here.
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### Author:  [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/9 "2024-07-25T15:41:09Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> and insist that there’s no proof that it was you, and swear to find the real killers, while there’s still absolutely no doubt in anyone’s minds that you did it, and will do it again if need be.
And, like O.J, you will for some reason never be able to find him. LOL
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/10 "2024-07-25T16:11:28Z")
> [@Jasmine](#):
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> The NSB could do it in such a way that it really looked like an accident or natural causes, but I think they make it pretty obvious on purpose so that other “trouble makers” get the message that, “If you keep causing problems, you’d better live on the first floor.” LOL
Have a heart attack and fall out of a window onto exploding bomb and die in a shooting accident, for example.
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### Author:  [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/11 "2024-07-25T19:54:12Z")
> [@Jasmine](#):
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> The NSB could do it in such a way that it really looked like an accident or natural causes, but I think they make it pretty obvious on purpose so that other “trouble makers” get the message that, “If you keep causing problems, you’d better live on the first floor.” LOL
> [@Encinitas](#):
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> I wonder if first floor apartments go for a premium in Russia.
Nitpick: ground floor.
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/12 "2024-07-25T20:05:14Z")
In Russia, the ground floor and the first floor are [synonymous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey).
> In the first system, used in such countries as the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Norway, Russia, and other ex-Soviet states, the number of floors is counted literally; that is, when one enters a building through the ground-level front door, one walks quite literally on the first _floor_ ; the storey above it therefore counts as the second _floor_,
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### Author:  [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-economist-dies-after-falling-from-window/1004756/13 "2024-07-25T20:12:37Z")
80 years old and still too dangerous or sometimes accidents happen to old people