{"id":245614,"date":"2025-07-07T15:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245614\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T15:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:45:17","slug":"russian-minister-fired-by-putin-shoots-himself-dead-authorities-say-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/245614\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian minister fired by Putin shoots himself dead, authorities say \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One lawmaker said that Starovoit\u2019s death <a href=\"https:\/\/rtvi.com\/news\/smi-uznali-chto-starovojt-mog-byt-uzhe-mertv-na-moment-uvolneniya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may have occurred before<\/a> he was sacked by the president. <\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin published a decree earlier Monday saying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/russian-president-vladimir-putin-dismisses-transport-minister-starovoit-2025-07-07\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Putin had fired Starovoit<\/a>, without giving an official reason for his dismissal \u2014 but airports across Russia have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-claims-moscow-drone-attack-airspace-briefly-halted-amid-wider-strikes-06-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">faced multiple delays<\/a>, cancellations and stranded passengers over the weekend due to Ukrainian drone attacks.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/explosion-on-tanker-in-russian-port-sparks-investigation-06-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an explosion aboard the Eco Wizard<\/a>\u00a0tanker at a port in the Leningrad region triggered an ammonia leak, adding to the crisis engulfing Russia\u2019s transportation sector.<\/p>\n<p>Starovoit was appointed as Russia\u2019s transport minister in May 2024. Before his time as minister, he spent almost five years as acting governor and head of the Kursk region bordering Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>This story has been updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One lawmaker said that Starovoit\u2019s death may have occurred before he was sacked by the president. The Kremlin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1306,2000,299,5187,332,9322,333,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-245614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-aviation","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russian-politics","14":"tag-vladimir-putin","15":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114812729778586099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}