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2022-12-20 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Another Russian Oligarch, Dmitry Zelenov, Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-20 03:26|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Russian oligarchs have become the Spinal Tap drummers of modern society.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-20 05:11|| 2022-12-20 05:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Getting to be right up there as healthy as being a young black male in Chicago.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-12-20 06:44|| 2022-12-20 06:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe he was method acting for a Phineas role in A Seperate Peace dinner theatre production in Toulon.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-12-20 06:54|| 2022-12-20 06:54|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 - "Aspiring rappers, turning their lives around, Da!"

Posted by Frank G 2022-12-20 06:58|| 2022-12-20 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Another commenter here will tell us "someone he talked to" said it was a "ploy" to catch the Ukrainians off guard...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-12-20 07:34|| 2022-12-20 07:34|| Front Page Top

#6 That Polonium 210 is a killer.

Posted by Slavising Unineting5672 2022-12-20 08:10|| 2022-12-20 08:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Fell down the stairs? I guess the windows weren’t available. Guess they were closed.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-12-20 08:30|| 2022-12-20 08:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Knowing they will eventually turn on him, Putin deals with his oligarch problem the old fashioned way.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-12-20 08:34|| 2022-12-20 08:34|| Front Page Top

#9 This doesn't apply specifically to falling down stairs, but I recalled the 17th century word 'Defenestration' that I believe we should use more regularly in such cases.

What is surprising is that they actually have a word for this.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2022-12-20 10:49|| 2022-12-20 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Fell and hit his head on a small piece of metal moving 3000 fps - what unlucky timing…

Posted by Glenmore 2022-12-20 10:53|| 2022-12-20 10:53|| Front Page Top

#11 1620, "the action of throwing out of a window," from Latin fenestra "window." A word invented for one incident: the "Defenestration of Prague," May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window of the castle of Hradschin by Protestant radicals (the pair landed in a trash heap and survived). It marked the start of the Thirty Years' War.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-12-20 13:40|| 2022-12-20 13:40|| Front Page Top

#12 https://www.etymonline.com/word/defenestration

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-12-20 13:41|| 2022-12-20 13:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Eddie Longshanks & 'Phillip' sure know the meaning of the word...

Posted by Raj 2022-12-20 14:35|| 2022-12-20 14:35|| Front Page Top

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