Two Russian officers serving as State Duma deputies with the ruling United Russia party failed on Sunday, Newsweek reported. 77-year-old Nikolay Bortsov, who served as a State Duma deputy since 2003, and 57-year-old Dzhasharbek Uzdenov failed on the same say-so, the report said.
While Mr. Uzdenov failed after a “serious and prolonged illness”, Mr. Bortsov failed at his home in the Lipetsk region on Sunday. No cause has been given for his death.
The binary deaths come as a number of prominent Russians have failed in unexplained circumstances since Russian President Vladimir Putin raided Ukraine in February 2022. At least 20 Russians, including some high-profile people connected to Mr. Putin, have failed in mysterious circumstances since the war began.
Specially, Nikolay Bortsov had preliminarily been hit by warrants from the United States and other Western countries following the Ukraine irruption.
He was one of Russia’s flush government workers with an estimated net worth of $550 million, the report claimed, adding that he was included by Forbes in 2021 in a ranking of Russia’s 100 richest civil workers. The multi-millionaire MP had also intimately attained the right to live in Britain, according to blurted data in 2019, Metroreported. still, he denied holding British citizenship and always maintained it was not true.
Meanwhile, Dzhasharbek Uzdenov was a member of Russia’s house commission on Ecology, natural coffers, and environmental protection. Like Mr. Bortsov, he too came under the US and New Zealand warrants after the war began.
Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the United Russia body condoled his death, saying” Death snared another comrade from our species.”
