 Let's start with the news today out of Russia that, you know, a, what is his name, Maganov, Maganov, who is a senior businessman and oligarch in Russia. He's the chairman of Russia's second largest oil company, Luke Oil, was found dead at the bottom of a hospital window, so theory is, as these Russian theories go, theory is he committed suicide. So the 67-year-old plunged to his death, although the news says circumstances surrounding his fall were unclear. It turns out, though, that a bunch of Russians have been falling to the deaths out of apartment buildings and hospitals and office buildings in the last couple of years. That's why I called it Russians falling out of windows. Weird. Who knows? Maybe this is the, maybe the radioactive stuff takes too long or too risky to eliminate your opponents, maybe just throwing them out of windows makes more sense. So this falling of somebody involved in the oil company seemed a little weird, and so I looked it up a little bit and there was an article in Newsweek called, the title of the article is, Russians must keep mysteriously falling out from windows to their deaths. I'm not making this up. It's an article in Newsweek. And this is not even the list, which we'll get to in a minute, of all the oligarchs that have died since the Ukraine war started. Now, I just want to remind you, this is Russia that Jordan Peterson and many people on the right say is our ally, is our friend, is the West. We shouldn't say anything negative about them. And Donald Trump once said, when he was told that Putin kills journalists, Donald Trump's response was, well, we kill people too. Why is that a big deal? Well, I'm sure you could probably combine a list of Americans falling out of windows. But let's just take this list. Let's just go with it. It's fun, right? Russians falling out of windows, I guess is morbid, but here we go. So in December 2021, Yegor Plusvinin, the founder of a nationalist website, Sputnik and Pogrom, died after falling out of a window of a residential building in the center of Moscow. He allegedly first threw a knife and a gas canister out the window and then he fell. Maybe he was using it to break the window so he could fall out of it. He was a supporter of the annexation of Crimea but then a predicted civil war and collapse of the Russian Federation. Not a good message before you go to war. On October 19, 2021, a Russian diplomat was found dead after falling from a window at the Russian embassy in Berlin. Well, it turned out he maybe wasn't a diplomat, but was probably an undercover officer with a Russian FSB. It also turned out he was the son of General Alexander Zalo, the deputy director of the FSB second service. So who knows what's going on there. In late December 2020, Alexander Kagansky, a top Russian scientist reportedly working on a COVID-19 vaccine at the time, was found dead with a stab wound after falling from his high-rise apartment in St. Petersburg. Supposedly, he stabbed himself and then fell out the window. There also were reports of healthcare workers falling out of hospital windows, some to their deaths in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic. I'm just reporting the news. I don't make it up. And in this case, I don't even know how to interpret it, so it just is what it is. In July, now this one is interesting. This one is really interesting. In July, Dan Rappaport, a 52-year-old Latvian American investment banker, an outspoken Putin critic. I mean, this guy really went after Putin, was found dead after falling from a luxury apartment building in Washington, D.C. Police say they don't suspect foul play, but the case remains under investigation. This guy, I remember this guy, he's a private equity fund guy. I think he had a lot of investment in Russia, made a lot of money in Russia in the 90s and 2000s, and then turned on Putin and was this extraordinary critic of Putin's. And he claimed that his life was in danger, claimed that they were trying to kill him. Well, he's dead falling out of a window. It seems like there's a pattern here. Maybe this is the way we get rid of political opponents. Rappaport's friends say he was assassinated, that the whole thing is highly suspicious. And anyway, that's Rappaport. Rappaport's, by the way, Rappaport's former business partner. I shouldn't laugh because people are dying here. Rappaport's former business partner Sege Kachinko, Sege Kachinko, fell to his death from a Moscow apartment building in 2017. Russians falling out of windows and dying. This is much cheaper than radioactive poison. It's much cheaper than poison tipped umbrellas, which is the traditional way in which the Russian Secret Service have been killing people they don't like. I guess now they just throw them out the window. Sometimes they stab them first, and then they throw them out the windows, which is an obvious strategy for suicide. Stab, jump. I would do that. All right. Now, that's not the only thing because there's an overlap here because the guy who jumped out the window today, or yesterday, was an oligarch. So the other avenue of research is, well, are oligarchs, what's the life expectancy of an oligarch in Russia these days? And it turns out not very long. It turns out that seven Russian oligarchs, seven Russian oligarchs, have died under kind of mysterious circumstances in recent months. So I'm going to read you this. This is morbid, and some of this is brutal. So bear with me, I guess, because this is a little kind of spooky. But let's go through this. Let's start with Sergei Potentprosenya. This is a millionaire oligarch. He was found hanging in a rented luxury villa in Spain on April 19 of this year. His wife, an 18-year-old daughter, were also found dead in the apartment with stab wounds. The police assuming this is a murder, suicide, that he killed his daughter and his wife and then committed suicide. Other family members doubt this. So there's a lot of people questioning this interpretation of it. Okay, one murder, suicide, maybe. Let's not jump to conclusions. So let's look at a week earlier. Vladislav Avaev was found dead of a gunshot wound in his Moscow apartment. This is April 18, so a week earlier, along with his wife and 13-year-old daughter. Now, the first guy was involved in natural gas production company. This guy is the former vice president of Gas-Pombank, probably on subsidiary of the Russian Energy Giant. And the police investigating this as a murder, suicide. So he killed his wife and daughter and he killed himself. Two in a week. Okay, and then there's Vasily Melinkov. Vasily was found dead in his apartment in Novgorod, Russia, right? On March 23, so like less than a month before this, the billionaire was stabbed to death as were his wife and two sons. Ten and four. The motor weapons were found in the scene. The police investigating the theory that Melinkov killed his family and then killed himself. Three in a month. Three motor suicides in a month, all related to, what was he a billionaire of? He owned a medical equipment supply company, but all oligarchs, all Russian oligarchs, not supposedly he was really hurt by Western sanctions. He killed his four-year-old kid because he was hurt by Western sanctions, really. And then there's Mikhail Watford, who's a Ukrainian-born oligarch, also in Russia. Russian was found, I mean, a Ukrainian-born affiliate associated with Russia, was found hanged in his garage in his home in Surrey, England, on February 28. He had moved to the 1960s after he's made his fortune in oil and gas, right? The Surrey police, they're investigating it, but they don't think there's anything suspicious at this time. Alexander Chulkayov was found hanged in an apartment garage in St. Petersburg on February 25, just three days before this other oligarch. Police told the Gazeta that they found a suicide note conveniently right next to his body. Anymore? Yeah, Leonhard Schumann, according, another top gas bomb executive, was found dead in a cottage in the same village in January, in January before the invasion. Again, suicide note, two hangings, suicide note. I guess they went from hangings to murder suicides to throwing people out of windows. Then there's Alexander Subotin, a former attack executive of Russian oil company Lukoil, was found dead in his house in some place in Russia. He supposedly suffered a heart attack, but a source told tasks, the news agency, the Russian news agency, that he had arrived at the house in severe alcohol and drug intoxication the day before and was found dead in a shaman's house in a room used for Jamaican voodoo rituals. As I said, I don't make this up. Russia, this bastion of Western civilization, this beacon of hope for the West, because, again, it's anti-left, seems to be killing off people off in ever more creative ways. And it seems like children involved in this as well, and maybe voodoo, maybe the voodoo was used to cause the murder suicides, that would save you on hitmen if you could just voodoo them out of existence. That is Russia. That is Russia. Now, it could be that there's just a lot of depressed people in Russia. It could be that there's just a lot of confused people in Russia. Overall, suicide rates in the United States are very high, particularly over the last two years. Deaths as a consequence of overdose of opioids and other things are very high in the U.S. I think we'll do a show on suicide and opioid deaths soon. I've talked about this before, about the betrayal of, you know, by the intellectuals of the common American and the despair that so many Americans feel and I think they're taking it out by taking opioids and committing suicide. So, we'll talk about that. We'll do a show on that. But so, you know, maybe this is just that, but it is a little suspicious that these oligarchs, that they all have some relationship or most of them have some relationship with the oil and gas business industry. Most of these deaths happen after the war started. Very, very strange. Somebody's killing somebody off. And this is, of course, in the context of Dugan's daughter being assassinated last week in a failed attempt to assassinate. Dugan, his daughter, got killed in his stead. Well, I'm glad I'm not going to Russia anytime soon. And certainly, if I go to Russia, I'm asking in the hotel for a first-floor room, although, you know, I could still commit suicide by hanging and leave a note. Also, if you'd like to see the Iran Book Show grow, please consider sharing our content and, of course, subscribe. Press that little bell button right down there on YouTube so that you get an announcement when we go live. And for those of you who are already subscribers and those of you who are already supporters of the show, thank you. I very much appreciate it.