Another unfortunate tumble from a high place. They really need to sort their balcony railings out.
Vladimir Shklyarov had made some critical remarks about the SMO a few years back but seemed to have quietened down. Maybe Putin just has a long memory and can bear a grudge. Or maybe it was really an accident or maybe a suicide, but I think most people would raise eyebrows at those suggestions - particularly as there seems to be a slightly disparaging explanation being floated about, which is typically a cover for something more sinister (only 'slightly disparaging' as the drugs were allegedly for back pain that would ultimately require surgery, they didn't have the temerity to suggest he was a closet crackhead).
Local reports suggest he was trying to escape from his apartment - after his ex-wife locked him in there at his request to stop him from buying drugs.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/vladimir-shk ... star-fall/
This is particularly sad as he wasn't some oligarch trying to muscle in on the embezzlement, he was a ballet dancer. Chefs, dancers -it's not just journalists who are on the list.