Nothing quirky about it. "Falling out of windows" has been their go-to for a few detractors. I have a feeling their hit squads lazy AF "plausible deniability" approach is intentional to flaunt their power and impunity.
In December 2021, Yegor Prosvirnin—the founder of nationalist website Sputnik and Pogrom—died after falling out of a window of a residential building in the center of Moscow.
He allegedly threw a knife and gas canister out of the window before the fall, BBC News reported.
On October 19, 2021 a Russian diplomat was found dead after a fall from a window of the Russian embassy in Berlin, Der Spiegel reported.
The man was a second secretary at the embassy, but German intelligence sources told the newspaper they suspected he was an undercover officer with Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).
Investigative outlet Bellingcat said it used open-source data to identify the deceased man as Kirill Zhalo, the son of General Alexey Zhalo, deputy director of the FSB's Second Service.
In late December 2020, Alexander "Sasha" Kagansky, a top Russian scientist reportedly working on a COVID-19 vaccine at the time, was found dead with a stab wound after falling from his high-rise apartment in St. Petersburg.
According to Russian outlet Fontanka, the suspect, a childhood friend of Kagansky, told police that Kagansky stabbed himself then jumped to his death.
There were also reports of health care workers falling out of hospital windows—some to their deaths—in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two Russian doctors died and another was seriously injured after falls from hospital widows over a two-week period between April and May 2020. Reports said two of the doctors had protested working conditions and the third was being blamed after her colleagues contracted the virus.
And in July, Dan Rapoport, a 52-year-old Latvian-American investment banker and outspoken Putin critic, died after a fall from a luxury apartment building in Washington, D.C.
Rapoport's former business partner, Sergei Tkachenko, fell to his death from a Moscow apartment building in 2017.
https://wesodonnell.medium.com/prominent-russians-keep-falling-out-of-windows-653cfffabe
Gives a whole new meaning to “I’ve fallen for the Communist Party”.