Another Putin critic dies after falling from window

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A second Vladimir Putin critic has died after falling from a hotel window.

Pavel Antov, 65, died in India on Sunday just days after celebrating his 65th birthday.

A June WhatsApp message linked to Antov’s account was seen as critical of Putin’s war in Ukraine.

A second Vladimir Putin critic died on Sunday after falling from a window, Russian media TASS reported.

According to reports, Pavel Antov fell from a hotel window in Rayagada, India, just days after celebrating his 65th birthday. He was visiting the state of Odisha in eastern India.

Antov was the chairman of the commission for agrarian policy, nature management and ecology of the Legislative Assembly of the Vladimir region and was well known in the region, according to TASS.

“Our colleague, a successful entrepreneur, philanthropist Pavel Antov has died,” Deputy Speaker of the Regional Parliament Vyacheslav Kartukhin said on his Telegram channel, TASS reported. “On behalf of the deputies of the United Russia faction, I express my sincere condolences to relatives and friends.”

Legislative Assembly Speaker Vladimir Kiselyov called Antov’s death a “difficult and irreparable loss” in a statement posted on the regional parliament’s website, TASS reported.

Antov was a known critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the BBC reported.

The BBC reported that a since-deleted June WhatsApp message linked to Antov’s account and shared after a Russian missile strike in Kyiv that killed a man and injured his wife and seven-year-old daughter was considered critical. of Putin’s war in Ukraine.

“It is extremely difficult to call all of this anything other than terror,” the WhatsApp message read. Antov quickly veered off on social media, insisting he was a supporter of war and Putin, adding that the post was from a war critic he disagreed with and that everything this was a misunderstanding, the BBC reported.

Antov is the second Putin critic to die after falling from a window.

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In September, Russian energy oligarch Ravil Maganov, 67, died after falling from a hospital window, Insider reported at the time.

The 67-year-old oil tycoon died after his oil company, Lukoil, released a statement expressing its “deepest concerns” over President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

Another Russian traveling with Antov also died at a hotel in India on Friday, according to the BBC.

The BBC reported that Odisha Police Superintendent Vivekananda Sharma said Budanov died of a stroke. Sharma added that Antov “was depressed after his death and he too died”.

Alexei Idamkin, the Russian consul in Kolkata, told TASS that police saw no “criminal element in these tragic events”, the BBC reported.

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