Ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov who criticised Putin’s Ukraine invasion dies in fall from building in St Petersburg
Ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov who criticised Putin’s Ukraine invasion dies in fall from building in St Petersburg
An acclaimed Russian ballet dancer has died in a fall from his residential block in St Petersburg.
I mean ballet dancers are known for being klutzy and prone to tripping over their own feet. Right?
Can't believe she jumped, never know who's suicidal...
"He". No unwanted misgendering please.
Classic hooker murdah suicide
So many people fall from their windows or balconies in Russia that I am surprised they are still legal
The f'ed up Government of Putin will try the same shit in the USA.
How long before windows make it to the statistics of average deaths per-year in Russia?
I honestly wonder if the Kremlin figured the ratio of trained military personnel to dissidents needed to keep pushing people out of buildings.
Without Swan Lake, how can there be putsch in Kremlin? Truly, genius move.
That's the second addition this week: Suspicious deaths of notable Russians
Russia be slippery. My heart goes out to these rare brave souls in a land of cowards.
Again? That's another reason to uninstall all windows. Especially in Russia.
Bill gates and Steve balmer in shambles.
Why? so they can take you alive?
Ballet stars, and their notoriously poor balance.
He seems to have astonishing balance for someone with one leg
A nice window to the future for US citizens critical of their government... a window ripe for defenestration...
If I die mysteriously from a fall, please refer to this comment.
Actually you will probably die in a Tesla whose doors do not open https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/friends-trapped-in-tesla-burned-to-death-when-electronic-doors-failed-to-open-after-crash/ar-AA1tWPYH
Or which just hits you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/
I mean now where Teslas are probably the next mandatory car for state officials. And after some "Think Tank" will be pretty sure that all the saftey fuss about autopilots is bad for the economy.
They'll just "find drugs" in your car. Local police forces will be able to link information profiles on you to license plate readers. They'll get an alert for a "liberal" coming into their town and pull you over under some small premise like you were "swerving."
You may want to check the history of your country. It's your past your present and your future.
A window to the present for journalists critical of Israel.
Coming soon to a city near you!
This isn't funny.
You're just blessed enough not to recognize gallows humor. We're actually jealous of you.
make sure you check your railings in America before January.
Everyone else is stocking up on food and drugs.
I'm stocking up on steel railings and evacuation air pads.
Unfortunately anti-russian racism is acceptable here. When you see a headline like this, just be ready for the comments.
It's not racism to point out that a surprising number of Putin critics have died from falling from tall buildings.
Vladimir Shklyarov:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/vladimir-shklyarov-death-st-petersburg-ballet-star-fall/Dan Rapoport:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/26/dan-rapoport-putin-critic-was-it-suicide-00053836Pavel Antov:
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-critic-pavel-antov-dies-falling-out-hotel-window-2022-12Do you seriously think Russian is a race?
Gallows humor about the suspicious deaths of people critical of an oligarchy is not racism.
Unless you are a wilfully credulous root vegetable of a person.
TIL Russian is a race
Pro-Russian comment meant to wield the left’s propensity to over-diagnose racism to redirect and distract.
I'd more call it politicism, as it's more criticizing the political state and not someones origin/heritage.
As far as I read, he had a
legspinal injury and an operation scheduled (bad stuff for a ballet dancer - you can't work with an injuredlegspine) and was experiencing difficulties with alcohol and painkillers (the latter for the injury). He might have felt that his career was doomed.As far as I read, he called his girlfriend (or maybe ex-wife, as the article suggests) and asked her to visit him. When she arrived, he had already fallen.
He was characterized as optimistic and nobody had noticed a death wish. Then again, during injury, pain, inability to work, (self-)medication and maybe withdrawal symptoms, other people's predictions of character may not entirely apply to every person.
The balcony was described as not the safest place on Earth. It doesn't require a detective to suspect that being under the influence of strong painkillers might increase the risk.
He can't be characterized as an opposition figure, or a figure of power. There is no clear beneficiary or motive.
As for war and statements against it - he was an artist, a dancer in a publicly funded theatre, and limited by that in what he could say without losing his job. Since it seems that he had reasonable political opinions, inability to voice them without experiencing retribution probably didn't make him cheerful.
I imagine Russia is like the Star Wars setting, lots of crazy steep drops and they never install railings.
They don't have any budget to do it differently or it's a power move, like, it's not official but you know it?
Power move. That and shooting yourself, in the back, multiple times.
They really could use some railings over there.
This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.
Good news Russias economy is in the toilet and someone has started flushing already, Ukrain will prevail and hopefully we'll have peace one day.
More realistically, he'll probably die of old age or be ousted by someone younger and more exciting to the wealthy elite that keep Putin in power. Real change may come after that, but a change in leadership is not going to immediately fix long term issues like corruption, wealth disparity, etc.
Unless the Russians violently purge there elites, a new dictator will take the seat before the corpse is cold. He may even hold a sham election to "legitimize" himself as the best person to sand next to a window with.
True. Another possibility is that the economy (and infrastructure gotten their maintenance money stolen for 20 years and starts to crumble) goes down with a skyrocketing inflation going to the moon killing the ruble, and who knows what happens when you can't pay your army any more ...
Interesting times for russia.
Russia is Game of Thrones in real life. I wouldn't bet on positive change there.
This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.
Indeed and same goes for israel or USA. Every nation involved in shady actions should be denucleariased and its politician held account for their crimes.
Good luck with that.
"in an apparent suicide, putin critic ________ shot himself in the back 20 times. more at 11"
He's gonna do it again at 11? Damn, that's super sus.
Gotta give him time to reload.
I know here is the place where we happily fall for these clickbaits. Sure, a lot of Russians weren't hot about the idea of invading Ukraine, but also everyone dies somehow. Just to be clear, the content of the article doesn't suggest what everyone is suggesting here. Or what? Are people supposed to be immortal as long as they criticize Putin?
hello comrade, how is Moscow today?
falling from a building is not a natural cause of death, and it's also not likely that it was a mistake
What do you think is a normal rate of death-by-falling-from-a-window for well known people who criticise the leader of the nation, in most countries?
