Alexander "Sasha" Kagansky, a Russian scientist who was working on a COVID-19 vaccine, was found dead after reportedly falling from a 14th floor window of a high rise flat in St Petersberg, Russia. Kagansky's body also had stab wounds on it.
The 45-year-old was in his underwear when he fell to his death. The police have stated that the scientist also suffered a stab wound, according to Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK).
Defenestration seems to be a favorite method in Russia of dealing with inconvenient people. Doctors who were complaining about how hospitals were dealing with the pandemic. Invonvenient journalists. As the Russians have found out, shooting or poisoning people leads to a lot more blowback
So the question is whether or not there is a problem with Russia's vaccine that made it advisable to toss one of the scientists involved out a window.
Trump now fears domestic partner abuse from his estranged former boyfriend, darling little strongman Vlad. That sweet sweet pillow talk about splitting up the world between Russia and Fascist Trumplandia that used to cause trump's gnarled naughty bits to tingle so bad are now just fading memories of true love. All those feeling of warmth and nostalgia and turgidity have been replaced by terror. In addition to his royal hamberder taster, trump has brought in a Secret Service underwear tester to ensure no Russian nerve agents contact his leaky and disfunctional, fungus shaped genitourinary parts. And added to trump's usual terror of steps, ramps, umbrellas, women and water containers, he now will not enter a room with windows situation more than four feet above ground level. But the word from Vlad is that nothing bad will happen as long as the grift continues to pay at least the vig on what he owes. So trump's long con must continue indefinitely. Keep dancing, Don.
ReplyDeleteGenitourinary? I salute your command of the language sir. And your post. And the response from trumplandia will be "yeah but WHATABOUT......."
ReplyDeleteSomehow this post reminds me of a line or two from Jean Genet's play, "The Balcony," to the effect that "he died of a heart attack — while falling from a 43rd floor window of the Foreign Ministry Building."
ReplyDeleteYours crankily,
The New York Crank
I was in Russia for two weeks when a rising high school senior (1964). Russia then had no domestic paper products, though there was toilet paper in the hotels Westerners stayed at. The people themselves used newspaper, pardon me, wiping their ass with Pravda (Russian for truth).
ReplyDeleteConsider what a people, their culture, their conditions must be like if they vault from near feudal kingdom to 'modernity' in a 100 years, to say nothing of having their land and people ravaged by Napoleon and Hitler in the interim. And they put the first satellite in orbit 40 years after the Romanov dynasty fell. To put things in perspective, the French monarchy fell in the late 1700s and they had 200 years, The Brits transitioned to a somewhat constitutional monarchy in the late 1600s, giving them 300 years.
The finding was that he was poisoned while trying to escape.
ReplyDeleteSee, this fool stole more chain and anchor then he could swim with.
To be fair, we Muirkans went from cowboys and indians and the klu klux klan to the first manned spaceflight in that same forty year period. I am not necessarily ambivalent, it could be said I am of mixed feelings about it, there's a gray area, it's not all black and white, but consider what a people, their culture, their conditions might be like had five hundred years ago a few of my ancestors had a more effective immigration policy, or in the interim a few more of my ancestors had been a bit more militant in their resistance to forced immigration.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your perspective, Stewart, please don't think I dissing on you, but I think it's a little like comparing guitar players, back in the day. Most all of 'em were good; some got more attention than others, some got more attention than they should.
It is odd people keep "falling" out of high-rise windows.
My grandmother's uncle was considered to be crazy for telling her that she would live to see men fly.
ReplyDeleteNot only did he live that long, she lived long enough to fly on jets and to see men walk on the Moon.
Stewart, Not to argue with your observation in general but the modernization of Russia started with Peter the Great .
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