US EditionRussian Transport Minister Allegedly Dies by Suicide Hours After Dismissal by Putin
- Roman Starovoit, former transport minister and ex-governor of Kursk, was found dead with a gunshot wound in his car near Moscow in early July 2025.
- His death followed his dismissal by President Putin on July 7, amid a criminal investigation into alleged embezzlement exceeding RUB4 billion during Kursk military fortifications construction.
- Testimony from Starovoit’s former deputy, Aleksei Smirnov, implicated him and associates in a scheme involving poorly built defenses, and some former associates remain under investigation.
- Senior lawmaker Andrei Kartapolov confirmed Starovoit's death saying it happened “quite some time ago” and noted investigators consider suicide the most likely cause without final conclusion.
- This case marks Russia’s first suspected ministerial suicide in the post-Soviet era amid ongoing elite corruption probes and transport sector disruptions linked to the war in Ukraine.
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Moscow (EFE).- The Kremlin this Tuesday called the death of Russian Transport Minister Román Starovoit, who according to Russian police committed suicide after being dismissed on Monday by President Vladimir Putin. “This kind of information is always tragic and sad,” said Dmitri Peskov, presidential spokesman, on his wheel, in ... Read more
The Kremlin said on Tuesday "shocked" by the apparent suicide of Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoït, announced shortly after his dismissal on Monday, and called to wait for the results of the ongoing investigation. ...
The Kremlin stated Tuesday that the murder of former Romanian Transport Minister Starovoit just a few hours after his resignation by President Vladimir Putin was shocking, wrote Reuters. The spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitri...
Russian President Vladimir Putin's former Transport Minister Roman Starovoit has been found dead. His body was found on the same day he was dismissed from the post of minister. Many questions are being raised about his death under suspicious circumstances.
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