4w ago

CEO of Russian Fertilizer Firm Found Decapitated Near Kaliningrad - The Moscow Times

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Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.

The chief executive, Alexei Sinitsyn, is believed to have died by suicide, according to a law enforcement source cited by the Vedomosti business newspaper.

Investigators told state news agencies that Sinitsyn’s body was found with an attached towing cable under a bridge outside the city of Kaliningrad. They said they were establishing the circumstances of his death.

Sinitsyn, 43, was the CEO of K-Potash Service, which has been developing the Nivensky-1 potassium-magnesium deposit in Kaliningrad since 2014. The ambitious project was originally planned to be launched in 2021, but has since been pushed back to 2032.

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4w ago

CEO of Russian Fertilizer Firm Found Decapitated Near Kaliningrad - The Moscow Times

www.themoscowtimes.com /2025/09/09/ceo-of-russian-fertilizer-firm-found-decapitated-near-kaliningrad-a90467

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He must've been so determined to kill himself judging by the extensive antemortem bruising, broken bones, ruptured vertebrae, missing fingernails, fluid in his lungs, blowtorch marks, acid burns, [...]. At least we know why because he filled in this copy of the standard Russian oligarch suicide form letter.
- Eh, this one this actually fairly plausible as a suicide. Noose + drop = decapitation for any significant value of 'drop'.
  
  I don't think that's how it normally works...
- Heh not sure about the suicide. Could be an accident.
decapitated
die by suicide
Wat
- These Russian oligarchs sure get inventive with their suicides.
  
  The Japanese used a second to help preform a self-decapitation. These Russians are so fiercely independent that they do it all by themselves.
- Decapitation is one of the potential outcomes of an improperly orchestrated hanging, though that's more for a capital punishment. Usually people hang themselves with a short rope and choke themselves out.
  
  Sounds like it was a metal towing cable, like from a winch? I could definitely see that taking a head off easier than a sturdy rope.
  
  So you're saying he wasn't well hung?
- I literally LOL'd.
  
  Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying 'Got rocks in your head?' to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren't careful.
  Russia is basically hardcore Anhk-Morpork, but with an even less subtle dictator.
"believed to have died by suicide"
🤔
Another russicide.
Did he superglue his hands to his head so it looked like he ripped his own head off?
His head must have been cut of while he fell from a window of a nearby building. So definitely a suicide.
Obvious suicide
- Russicide, it is an epidemic.
Huh, that's a new one. Couldn't find any windows or stairs or something?
- Show some empathy. Do you know how many people are being pushed out windows these days? Think of how boring that must be for the poor KGB officers
  You should be more supportive. This was very creative
When I saw the headline, my first thought was Mazepin. Perhaps his son's F1 career failure really got to him.
It says 'fertilizer company', but I immediately read 'army recruiter'.
Guess he was not the number one exporter of potassium
Merely the direct consequences of allowing Putin to rule.
Add it to the list.
https://pods.link/SO
Magnesium is a rough trade

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