Someone needs to review and improve Moscow‘s building regulations. It seems that there are incredibly lax rules on window quality – how else to explain how often wealthy people accidentally tumble out of them to their deaths?
The latest accident victim is the 87-year-old Vyacheslav Leontyev, the head of the Pravda publishing house, who was reportedly knowledgeable about the Kremlin’s financial secrets. Anyhow, Leontyev was relaxing in his high-rise apartment on Saturday evening when what must have been a strange and unlikely accident occurred, as he was found dead on the street 70 ft below that night.
NEW – Vyacheslav Leontyev, the 87-year-old head of the Pravda publishing house, died after falling 70 feet from his Moscow apartment window — Daily Mail pic.twitter.com/zreYZBi1xI
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 6, 2025
Moscow cops are baffled, as they can’t understand how such an accident could possibly occur. They’re now wondering whether this was a case of suicide, though they are puzzled by the fact that Leontyev had apparently never expressed any suicidal thoughts and wasn’t depressed. Sadly, it seems likely that this mystery cannot be solved, so detectives may just shrug and write this off as “one of those things”.
Andrey Malgin, an exiled journalist with inside knowledge of the Russian state, knew Leontyev well and summarized him as giving “the impression of a sort of underground millionaire. He also knew a lot about the ‘Party’s money’ — the Pravda publishing house was the most profitable enterprise in the business empire of the CPSU [Communist Party of the Soviet Union] Central Committee.”
Pravda (which translates to “Truth”) was famous as the official newspaper of the Communist Party during the Soviet Union, with its reporting becoming a byword for propaganda in the West. The newspaper began publication in 1912, survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, and continues to publish to this day, 113 years later.
Strange that this keeps happening
Sadly, Leontyev will join an ever-growing list of people who’ve suffered unexplainable accidents involving window malfunctions in high places. Prominent names are Ukraine war critic Ravil Maganow, Putin critic Pavel Antov, Russian defense financier Marina Yankina, oil company president Mikhail Rogachev, and oil company president Andrewi Badalov.
Puzzled detectives have had no choice but to rule most of these deaths as suicide, apparently pointing to an inescapable urge that Vladimir Putin’s critics have for hurling themselves out of high windows.
Perhaps we will never know what is really happening, but one thing’s for sure. Moscow’s glaziers really need to up their game and take more pride in their work!
