Former Head of Pravda the Latest to Take a High Header

The Daily Express

Russian police are investigating the death of the latest prominent figure to fall to his death from a window.

The secretive head of Pravda publishing house, Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, plunged 70ft from his home in western Moscow.

He was in charge of the famous Soviet newspaper Pravda – or Truth – the main organ of the ruling Communist Party, and continued in the role long after the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

Leontyev was seen as knowledgeable about the secret fortune of the party.

The veteran publisher died on Saturday evening and police are probing whether it was an accident, suicide or foul play.

Exiled journalist Andrey Malgin posted on the “strange death”, saying: “The window falls continue….. Here

7 Comments on Former Head of Pravda the Latest to Take a High Header

  1. Defenestration: is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window.By extension, the term is also used to describe the forcible or summary removal of an adversary

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  2. Sorry, but it would have been more amusing if the head of Pravda had fallen to his death after leaping out of his basement apartment window. The source for a story like this this just screams “Pravda” – or ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR or MSNBC.

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  3. MSM Trayvonned him with that old picture. Also gave us no idea of his current mental and physical condition. And none of standard stereotypical “Drunk Russian” stuff. They want so bad for it to be FSB, although I’m pretty sire the old coot was way out of the loop.

    If Joe Biden took a header out a window, what a shocker. Although maybe check Jill’s alibi. Maybe.

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