ANOTHER Russian businessman has mysteriously died as he was found lying on the ground with a bullet wound and a rifle nearby.
Alexander Tyunin, 50, who headed a chemicals plant for military equipment, was reportedly discovered next to a “suicide note”.
Alexander Tyunin, 50, boss of a major chemical composites plant linked to the armed forces, was found near his car in Moscow
His body was reportedly found next a rifle
A suicide note was found near his body claiming he had been suffering from depression
A passing motorist in the Moscow region settlement of Kokoshkino is thought to have spotted his motionless body.
It’s just the latest mystery passing in the Kremlin’s growing list of sudden deaths, including many who have plunged from windows.
Russian-state media claimed the executive of Khimprominzhiniring – part of state giant Rosatom – died from suicide.
A suicide note, according to reports, was discovered near his body and suggested he had suffered from depression.
The note, which included the phone number of Mr Tyunin’s wife, is believed to have said: “I did it myself — I’ve been tired of fighting depression for five years. It keeps getting worse. I have no strength left.”
But doubts have now emerged after it was discovered that the note appeared on Russian media before authorities confirmed the tycoon’s death.
A source, who hasn’t been named, said: “there was an obvious need to get out the version that this was suicide before any investigations had begun”.
This is the latest in of leading figures in Russia since shortly before the start of the war against Ukraine.
Permanent figures – from top Oligarchs to even ministers inside the Russian government – have secretly dropped dead.
Many have been found on the street with their death ruled as having happened when they “fell out of a window”.
These are often recorded as suicides – but many cases have raised cries of foul play.
Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky is among the sceptics.
He posted a sarcastic jibe: “Top managers of YUKOS and Lukoil have already fallen out of windows before.
“What are you laughing at? They just fall out of windows themselves.
“Russian oil workers have this professional deformity.
As soon as they approach the windows, their legs immediately give way.”
But others have also supposedly died from shooting themselves in the chest five times, burning alive after falling asleep with a lit cigarette, and being hacked to death with an axe.
In July, transport minister Roman Starovoit mysteriously died from a gunshot wound.
Telegram channels with links to the Russian security forces reported the cause of death as suicide, claiming the minister was found dead with gunshot wounds.
The boss of the chemical plant was found dead on a road
Mr Tyunin’s death comes among a spate of mysterious deaths in Russia
Vlad’s state-run media continues to claim the deaths were accidental or caused by suicide
Sources said he had left his ministry after morning meetings like nothing was wrong.
But hours later he was being carried by two medics out of the long grass covered in a black bag.
Before that, Transneft vice-president from the elite tower block where he lived on Moscow’s Rublevskoye Highway.
And in March, former MP Buvaysar Saitiev, 49, was found in a “serious condition” after plunging from a window in Moscow and later died.
In 2023, leading war official Marina Yankina, 58, a finance official at Russia‘s Ministry of Defence, was found dead after apparently falling 160ft from a 16th-floor window in St. Petersburg.
Former oil company vice president Mikhail Rogachev, 64, died after falling from his tenth-floor apartment in Moscow in October 2024.
He had been a senior executive at Yukos, an oil company dismembered by Putin and his cronies.
In 2022, Ravil Maganov, chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, died when he plunged from a sixth-floor window at Moscow’s elite Central Clinical Hospital – also known as the Kremlin Clinic.
On the same morning, Putin – who had earlier decorated Maganov, 67, with a top honour – swept into the hospital to pay his final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who had died the same week.
Former Russian transport minister Starovoit was reportedly found dead in his Tesla 
