{"id":238541,"date":"2025-07-04T22:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238541\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T22:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T22:31:15","slug":"russian-oil-executive-found-dead-outside-his-window-state-media-says-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/238541\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian oil executive found dead outside his window, state media says &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Badalov, the vice-president of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Russia<\/a>\u2018s national oil pipeline, Transneft, has been found dead after allegedly falling out of a window of his home in suburban Moscow, law enforcement told Russian state media on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The former businessman\u2019s body was discovered beneath a window of a house in Rublyovka, an upscale residential neighbourhood on the outskirts of the Russian capital, TASS, Russia\u2019s national news agency, says.<\/p>\n<p>The state-run oil conglomerate also confirmed Badalov\u2019s death, without elaborating on the circumstances, but said his work came during a \u201cdifficult and stressful period\u201d due to wartime sanctions, according to the independent Russian newspaper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2025\/07\/04\/transneft-vice-president-dies-in-apparent-fall-from-window-reports-say-a89678\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Moscow Times<\/a>. Badalov had served as Transneft\u2019s vice-president since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Russia pummels Kyiv just hours after Trump-Putin call in largest drone attack of the war'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2025-07-04T045920Z_1_LWD722004072025RP1_RTRWNEV_C_7220-UKRAINE-CRISIS-ATTACK-KYIV.MP4.00_03_02_00.St.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:40<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRussia pummels Kyiv just hours after Trump-Putin call in largest drone attack of the war\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>TASS says law enforcement officers told the agency that the deceased had left a farewell note and that preliminary findings suggest his cause of death was suicide.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the incident is underway.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on World<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a wave of unexplained deaths of high-profile Russian figures since <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> invaded <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen others have also died:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anatoly Gerashchenko, the former head of a Russian aviation research university, died on the institute\u2019s grounds after reportedly accidentally <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9148492\/russian-aviation-expert-dead-falling-down-stairs-anatoly-gerashchenko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling down numerous flights of stairs<\/a> in late September 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, the editor-in-chief of the major state newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9131060\/vladimir-sungorkin-dead-russian-newspaper-editor-sudden-stroke-suffocating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died \u201csuddenly\u201d after appearing to suffocate,<\/a> according to the paper he used to helm.<\/li>\n<li>Ivan Pechorin, an energy executive, died after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9125813\/russian-energy-executive-ivan-pechorin-mysterious-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling overboard from a speedboat<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ravil Maganov, chairman of the board of Russia\u2019s largest private oil company, Lukoil, died after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9099737\/russian-oil-executive-ravil-maganov-dead-hospital-window\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling out of the sixth-storey window of a hospital<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Subbotin, a former top manager for Lukoil, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8826712\/7th-russian-oligarch-dead-toad-poison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found dead in the basement of a shaman\u2019s house<\/a>\u00a0after allegedly receiving a hangover treatment involving toad venom.<\/li>\n<li>Sergey Protosenya, a former executive at Novatek, the largest independent natural gas producer in Russia, was found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8790242\/russian-oligarchs-suicides-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hanged outside a Spanish villa<\/a>\u00a0along with the bodies of his wife and 18-year-old daughter. The deaths appeared to be a murder-suicide.<\/li>\n<li>Vladislav Avayev, former vice-president of Gazprombank, Russia\u2019s third-largest bank, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8790242\/russian-oligarchs-suicides-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found dead in his Moscow apartment<\/a> along with the bodies of his wife and 13-year-old daughter. The deaths also appeared to be a murder-suicide.<\/li>\n<li>Vasily Melnikov, owner of Medstom, a company that imports medical equipment into Russia, and his family were all found dead in their luxury apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. Melnikov, his wife, and their 10-year-old and four-year-old sons had been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8790242\/russian-oligarchs-suicides-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stabbed to death<\/a>\u00a0and the murder weapons were found at the crime scene. Investigators again concluded that the deaths were a result of a murder-suicide.<\/li>\n<li>Mikhail Watford, a Ukrainian-born oligarch who made his millions as an\u00a0oil and gas tycoon, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8790242\/russian-oligarchs-suicides-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found hanged in the garage of his home in Surrey, U.K.<\/a>\u00a0Watford\u2019s wife and children, who were home at the time, were not harmed. Watford changed his last name from Tolstosheya after moving to the U.K. in the early 2000s.<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Tyulyakov, deputy general director of the treasury department for Gazprom, the largest publicly-listed natural gas company in the world, was <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8790242\/russian-oligarchs-suicides-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found hanged in the garage of his cottage<\/a>. A note was found with his body leading investigators to conclude that Tyulyakov died by suicide.<\/li>\n<li>Leonid Shulman, a top executive at Gazprom, was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/8790242\/russian-oligarchs-suicides-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found dead in the bathroom of his cottage<\/a>\u00a0next to an apparent suicide note in the same neighbourhood where Tyulyakov would die a month later.<\/li>\n<li>Maj. Gen. 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