The singer -songwriter Vadim Stroykina well -known musician from St. Petersburg, fell into the void last Wednesday from the window of his apartment, located on a tenth floor, during the police records for his alleged donations to the Ukrainian army. Stroykin faced sentences of up to 20 years in jail if he was accused and convicted of participating in a terrorist organization for his supposed support to the Ukrainian army. He was accused of donating money to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The Fontanka news website, based in St. Petersburg, reported that the Police recorded on Wednesday the Stroykin apartment in the central District of Admiralteysky within the framework of the criminal case. And according to the Telegram Mash channel, which is believed to have links with Russian security services, the singer suicide without prior notice. «The last time he was seen alive was on the tenth floor, When he went to the kitchen to drink water. Next, Stroykin precipitously opened the window and committed the irreversible act, ”says Mash’s unreliable information, which could not be verified independently. The police report did not even indicate what time the death occurred.
The Pro-Kremlin Komsomolskaya Pravda tab Urales, before moving to St. Petersburg.
Stroykin was belonging to Movement of singer -songwritersa genre identified with the Soviet cultural thaw of the 1960s and the subsequent popularity of allegorical songs as creative exit. He graduated in journalism at the British school in the 90s and became a presenter of an Ekaterimburg radio program. There he directed a show called “Anthology of the author song”, before publishing several albums and own compositions. She also presented a barraine music program at the missing radio station Ekho Moskvy and founded a travel agency. He dedicated the last 10 years of his life to giving private guitar classes, even in the San Petersburg apartment where he died.
Stroykin criticized on social networks the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and had published the word “bastards” in the most popular social network in Russia, VK, the day of the sudden death in prison of the opposition leader Alexey Navalny. That same year, he wrote: «This idiot [Putin] declared war on his own people, as well as a sister nation. I don’t want his death; I want to see him court and imprisoned ».
His death occurs in the midst of the growing repression of artists and public figures that oppose Kremlin’s military actions. Last year, Russian jazz musician Igor Butman was sentenced to six years in prison for statements against the war published on Facebook. Last November, the Russian star of the Ballet Vladimir Shklyarov fell from the fifth floor of a building after demonstrating against the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. And in March, the musician Dima Nova, named Real Dmitry Svirgunov, was crossing with Four other people a frozen stretch of the Volga River in a town called Diev-Gorodishche, when suddenly, the ice broke under its feet and was dragged by the current without the possibility of emerging. His companions accuse the Russian authorities of having weakened the passage of ice, aware that Svirgunov passed by every day at the same time, in revenge for their songs, which had become hits of anti -Putin activism. One of them, curiously, talked about drowning in the Volga.
The death of Stroykin, who has returned has shake the Russian music scene, has occurred one day after two other ‘accidents’ were reported in very similar circumstances, with two Russian colonels involved in mysterious falls from windows of higher floors. Colonel Alexey Zubkov, specialist in Forensic Research, fell 12 meters from the window of a bathroom, British newspaper Mailonline reported citing the Telegram Vchk-GKPU channel.
A second senior official died when he fell from the window of a fifth floor the same day. Artur Pryakhin – a former police colonel who now works for an antimonopoly agency – rushed from a fifth floor window in Petrozavodsk, capital of the western region of Carelia. The authorities investigate an alleged suicide.
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