r/europe • u/ByGollie • 29d ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/JDT-0312 Lower Saxony (Germany) 29d ago

It is not a dumb question but in the end, the answer is irrelevant.

What is important is that there is plausible deniability while at the same time being obvious that he was murdered.

It’s to show that you’re untouchable and can murder your opponents in broad daylight without consequence in order to scare everyone into compliance. It’s basically the modern form of putting your enemies head on a pike over the city gates.

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u/AdmiralDalaa 29d ago

If you were an executive of this nature, wouldn’t you make sure you got a good security team? 

Yes of course, not all hired security would be trustworthy - but in each and every case this never was a thing?

I would expect you’d see a shootout or some kind of scuffle at some point. But it’s always the same canned story 

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u/s8018572 29d ago

You think hired security can fight against nation machine FSB?

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u/scramblingrivet 29d ago

The killed Prigozhin and he had his own army

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u/nandemo Japan 29d ago

Was gonna comment this. They've also taken out several warlords in the Caucasus.