Valentina Bondarenko, a top Russian economist, has died at the age of 82 after falling out of her apartment window in Moscow, Russian state-run media reported on Tuesday.
Bondarenko, a leading research fellow at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, fell out of her apartment window on Monday evening, emergency services told news agency Tass.
“She fell out of the window of her apartment, unfortunately, it was not possible to save her, the injuries she received were incompatible with life,” the source said.
While the circumstances behind Bondarenko’s death remain unclear, a number of prominent Russian officials have died after falling out of windows since President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine began in February 2022, including a top oil executive and a defense official.
Read more at Newsweek.com
What Are Your Thoughts?
