Another of Vladimir Putin’s handpicked senior associates is dead after he mysteriously “fell overboard” on a boat. 39-year-old Ivan Pechorin – the Russian despot’s point man for developing Russia’s vast Arctic resources – is the ninth suspicious death from the Kremlin’s inner circle of forces in the past several months. Many of them are linked to the country’s energy sector, as it is scrutinized for its supplies to Europe – with three of them apparently murder-suicides. Pechorin, chief executive of Putin’s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation, had recently attended a major conference organized by Putin in Vladivostok and apparently drowned while sailing his private yacht off the country’s Pacific coast. Russian daily tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported that it sank overboard in waters near Russky Island near Cape Ignatiev. Development of the Arctic, a hugely profitable and rich source of oil and gas for Russia, is seen as vital to the country amid global sanctions that have put the Russian economy under pressure over Putin’s bombing of Ukraine. Pechorin was also responsible for the development of the aviation industry across the eastern side of Russia – a sector also under pressure from Western economic restrictions. His body was found after a search that lasted more than a day. The Arctic developer said in a statement: “Ivan’s death is an irreparable loss to friends and colleagues, a great loss to the company. “We offer our sincere condolences to the family and friends.” Ivan, in a circle, recently spoke at the Eastern Economic Forum chaired by Putin (Image: East2west News) The company’s former chief executive Igor Nosov, 43, also died suddenly in February, apparently of a stroke. He had recently addressed the Eastern Economic Forum chaired by Putin, 69, where the Russian tyrant mocked “stupid” Western sanctions. Putin is said to be even more paranoid than ever amid reports that he is suffering from ailments ranging from cancer to Parkinson’s disease and has exhibited twitchy limbs and strange behavior as his invasion of Ukraine continues to falter. Pechorin spoke at a session at the Eastern Economic Forum on anti-sanctions, titled “Everyone Has His Own Path: The Logistics of a Changed World.” Every death by Putin’s forces has been passed off as an accident or suicide by officials. However, there are widespread theories that the Kremlin rebuffed them because of their possession of secret information about Putin or resistance to his moves in the energy sector. The Russian president is accused of “blackmailing” Europe by cutting off gas supplies from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline. From top left: Four of the other Kremlin power players who died in mysterious circumstances include Vladislav Avayev, Alexander Subbotin, Leonid Shulman, Yevgeny Palant and his wife Olga Palant Alexander Tyulakov, Sergey Protosenya and Ravil Maganov with Ivan Pechorin in a grim line- with sudden deaths covered by rumors of foul play, staged and staged murder-suicides Oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, 67, plunged to his death from a sixth-floor window of a Moscow hospital earlier this month. He was chairman of Russia’s second largest oil company, Lukoil, with reports from Russia that he was beaten before being thrown from a window. The rumors have not been independently confirmed. Lukoil had opposed the invasion of Ukraine and Maganov died shortly before Putin arrived at the elite Central Clinical Hospital to pay his respects to the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died there a few days earlier aged 91. Yuri Voronov, 61, who headed a transport and logistics company for a company linked to Gazprom, was found dead in July floating in his swimming pool amid suspicions of foul play. And 61-year-old Alexander Tyulakov, a senior Gazprom finance and security official at the level of deputy general manager, was discovered hanged by his lover the day after Putin invaded Ukraine on February 24. Putin speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum on September 7 – one of the last times Ivan Pechorin was seen alive (Image: Getty) The warlord’s legs have been seen twitching in recent public appearances, fueling more fears that he is suffering from life-threatening for life diseases and mood-altering steroids (Image: East2West/Getty) Although he was found in a noose, many reports said his body showed signs of being beaten. Three weeks later, Leonid Shulman, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Invest, was found dead with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood on his bathroom floor in the same gated community where Tyulakov lived. Billionaire Alexander Subbotin – a 43-year-old linked to energy giant Lukoil where he was a manager, was found dead in May, with some fearing he was poisoned with toad venom that caused cardiac arrest. Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official with ties to Gazprombank funding, died in an apparent suicide after allegedly killing his wife Yelena, 47, and their 13-year-old daughter.
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But friends rubbished rumors she flew into a jealous rage after allegedly discovering she was pregnant after falling out with their driver. Days later, millionaire Sergey Protosenya, 55, was found hanged in Spain – after apparently butchering his wife Natalia, 53, and their teenage daughter, Maria, using an axe. Another “murder-suicide” was in the news last week when Ukrainian-born mobile phone tycoon Yevgeny Palant, 47, and his wife Olga, 50, were found by their daughter Polina, 20, dead from multiple stab wounds. knife. A close friend of the couple has strongly denied stories that her wife took her own life after butchering Yevgeny in a row that broke out when he told her he was leaving. Contact our news team by emailing us at [email protected] For more stories like this, check out our news page.
