Russian transport minister’s death fuels speculation about harsher environment for Kremlin elites
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Russian law enforcement agents carry the body of former Transportation Minister Roman Starovoit, who was found dead from a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, investigators said Monday, hours after his dismissal in Odintsovo, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 7, 2025. (Evgeniy Razumniy/Kommersant Photo via AP)FILE - Transport Minister Roman Starovoit attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, file)FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)A man carries a portrait of Roman Starovoit, the former transport minister who died in an apparent suicide after his dismissal while people line up to his bid farewell, at the morgue of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo)People line up to bid farewell to Roman Starovoit, the former transport minister who died in apparent suicide after his dismissal, at the morgue of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo)
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Russian law enforcement agents carry the body of former Transportation Minister Roman Starovoit, who was found dead from a gunshot wound in an apparent suicide, investigators said Monday, hours after his dismissal in Odintsovo, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, July 7, 2025. (Evgeniy Razumniy/Kommersant Photo via AP)
