The former prime minister of an oil-rich Russian region has died after being hit by a car while crossing the street.
Magomed Abdulayev (61), who is close to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, was hospitalized in the Caspian Sea town of Makhachkala, but succumbed to serious injuries.
Ukraine immediately hinted that it was the latest in a series of Russian deaths over the past year, which has been dominated by Vladimir Putin’s war.
Abdulayev, also a former rector of Dagestan State Pedagogical University, was crossing Magomed Gadzhiev Street when he was hit by a Niva car.
Former Prime Minister Magomed Abdulayev (61) (pictured) was taken to hospital but died of serious injuries in the Caspian Sea town of Makhachkala after being hit by a car
The driver is said to be 55, but it has not been released whether he has been arrested or detained.
According to reports, pedestrian Abdulayev crossed the street in an unauthorized place.
He was Prime Minister of the oil-rich region of Dagestan from 2010 to 2013, appointed when Medvedev was President of the Kremlin.
Medvedev – a close Putin ally and a bellicose blogger about the war in Ukraine – reportedly knew him since he attended the St. Petersburg State University graduated.
He was appointed when Dmitry Medvedev (pictured) was president of the Kremlin
Medvedev (57) is currently Putin’s deputy in Russia’s Security Council and is considered his closest political ally, leading his United Russia party.
Pravda Gerashenko Telegram Channel, run by Ukrainian official Anton Gerashenko, wrote: “Another mysterious death of a Russian official.
“A car hit and killed the former prime minister of Dagestan in Makhachkala.
“Russian media reports that Magomed Abdulayev (61) was the victim of a car accident when he crossed the street in the wrong place.”
Abdulayev, also a former rector of Dagestan State Pedagogical University, was crossing Magomed Gadzhiev Street when he was hit by a Niva car
His death comes less than two months after 45-year-old Kirill Stremousov, Putin’s husband in occupied Kherson, was killed in a car crash when his armored Lexus was torn apart.
Russia has been plagued by a series of “suspicious” deaths – many linked to the energy sector – since tensions rose ahead of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Wealthy politician Nikolay Petrunin – also known as Russia’s “gas prodigy” – was just 47 and had been in a coma for a month when he died in October.
The multimillionaire father of three, formerly a top executive in the gas industry, is believed to have died of complications related to severe Covid.
He was deputy chairman of the Russian parliament’s powerful energy committee and a Putin loyalist and “political protégé”.
His death comes less than two months after Putin’s husband in occupied Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, 45, was killed in a car crash when his armored Lexus was torn apart.
His companies built gas pipelines for major Russian energy companies, and he had ties to Kremlin gas giant Gazprom – now starving the West of Russian supplies as a result of the war – and Rosneft.
He demanded an annual salary of up to £1.75 million.
On September 1, 67-year-old oil magnate Ravil Maganov fell to his death from a window on the sixth floor of a Moscow hospital.
According to one report, the chairman of Lukoil – Russia’s second largest oil company – was “pushed” before being “thrown out the window”, but this has not been officially confirmed.
Ukrainian official Anton Gerashenko (pictured) hinted that it was the latest in a series of Russian deaths in the past year dominated by Vladimir Putin’s war.
His company spoke out against the war in Ukraine.
Curiously, very soon after Maganov’s body was found, Putin arrived at the elite Central Clinical Hospital to pay his last respects to the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in the hospital.
In July, 61-year-old Yuri Voronov, head of a transport and logistics company for a Gazprom-affiliated company, was found dead in his swimming pool while a prominent friend, a leading forensic scientist, warned of an unfair game.
Two more deaths of Gazprom-related executives in elite homes near St. Petersburg was reported amid suspicions that apparent suicides may have been murders.
Alexander Tyulakov, 61, a senior finance and security official at Gazprom at the level of deputy director general, was found dead by his lover the day after the war in Ukraine began in February.
His neck was in a noose at his £500,000 home.
However, he was reportedly badly beaten just before he “took his own life”, leading to speculation that he was under a lot of pressure.
At the same elite housing project in the Leningrad region closed by Leninsky, Leonid Shulman, 60, head of transport at Gazprom Invest, was found dead three weeks earlier with multiple stab wounds in a pool of blood on his bathroom floor.
43-year-old billionaire Alexander Subbotin, also linked to pro-Kremlin energy giant Lukoil, where he was a top executive, was found dead in May after “taking the advice of shamans”.
One theory is that Subbotin – who also owned a shipping company – was poisoned by frog poison, causing a heart attack.
In April, wealthy Vladislav Avayev, 51, a former Kremlin official, appeared to have committed suicide after killing his wife Yelena, 47, and daughter, 13.
He had high-level ties to Russia’s leading financial institution, Gazprombank.
Friends denied reports he was jealous after his wife admitted she was pregnant by her manager.
He is said to have had access to the financial secrets of the Kremlin elite.
A few days later, multimillionaire Sergey Protosenya (55) was found hanged in Spain after allegedly killing his wife Natalia (53) and their teenage daughter Maria with an axe.
He was a former vice chairman of Novatek, a company also closely linked to the Kremlin.
Questions have also been raised about the death of Putin’s chief development officer for Russia’s vast Arctic resources, who “fell overboard” to his death from a boat sailing along the country’s Pacific coast.
Ivan Pechorin, 39, recently attended a major conference organized by the Vladivostok Kremlin warlord.
The top performer was general manager of Putin’s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation.
In another case, a multi-millionaire with a mobile phone and his wife were found stabbed to death, raising questions.
The naked Yevgeny Palant (47) and his wife Olga (50), both born in Ukraine, were found with multiple stab wounds by their daughter Polina (20).
An immediate media briefing claimed the woman killed herself in a jealous rage after Palant said he was leaving her.
However, this was strongly denied by the couple’s best friend.
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