https://news.yahoo.com/putin-mentions-kgb-shows-support-172230784.html
Recently, Putin has seemed to (remarkably) express support for LGBT people in Russia, saying 'he imagines it is necessary to "talk about, write or show something from the lives of sexual minorities, transgenders [sic] and other transformers"'.
On the same day, the Russian government also published new fines for making statements such as this.
Rather than a boring question like "will this lead to a change of the new fines" or something - let's ask if anyone will get Wagner'ed because of this. It seems there may be right-left hand communication issues going on, so I expect there's some possibility of internal issues
Defining this as any suspicious death of a notable members in the Russian oligarchy or government, not just plane crashes. "Notable" is a bit subjective, but for purposes let's put the bound above rank and file officials and with no upper limit.
Level of suspicion is also subjective, and for the purposes of this will scale with notability - a lightly suspicious death of someone major may count as yes when a similar cause of death for someone else might not.
It's very possible that something that happens may not be widely published, so please let me know if you run across a story that's relevant!
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| # | Name | Total profit |
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| 2 | Ṁ8 |
People are also trading
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_deaths_of_Russian_businesspeople_(2022%E2%80%932023) collects these, though not necessarily the same class of people as this question intends, and perhaps to a different standard of notability. Would a new name on that list be necessary or sufficient to resolve?
(Most recent death there is no later than November 16th.)
@cobular there's a new, December death on that list. Does "top executive (chief accountant) of plausibly-biggest Russian satellite company" sound notable?
(Direct article: https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/18/russian-satellite-company-boss-knew-state-secrets-found-dead-19994290/)
There's also a regional politician and, not on the list, deputy editor-in-chief of a major newspaper.