Top Russian oil boss, Ravil Maganov, he has passed away.
Now the cause of death is a little bit up in the air.
He apparently fell from the window of a hospital.
Also, maybe he had a severe illness.
Let's figure it all out, because this is what happened I think.
Ravil Maganov, the chairman of Lukoil, Russia's second largest oil producer,
fell out of a window at the Central Clinic Hospital.
That's according to a report by channel 1,
the country's leading state-owned television network.
Keep that in mind. Here's an image of him standing next to
Putin there.
He looks very comfortable [LAUGH] by the way.
>> [LAUGH].
>> Jesus look at that.
>> [INAUDIBLE] at ease.
>> Just look into it.
It's if we're like looking to Putin's, Bush looked into Putin's eyes,
look into this guy's eyes, okay?
The company did release a statement with this one key point missing out.
He said Ravil Maganov passed away following a severe illness.
Is what Lukoil said, making no mention of a fall though.
And another news channel confirmed the fall, but then called it a suicide.
So we're all over the place.
This Tass is a Russian state news-run agency called Maganov's death a suicide.
And it cited an unnamed source in law enforcement who said that he who is 67
years old had been hospitalized after a heart attack and
that he was taking antidepressant pills.
Kind of an unlikely story because Reuters then went on to report that two people who
knew him,
said that they believed it was highly unlikely that he had taken his own life.
Other Russian executives tied to the energy industry have also
died under suspicious circumstances in the months since the invasion of Ukraine.
Here's one of those instances and from what they were saying,
we might be able to put two and two together.
And in March, Lukoil took an unusual stance among Russian businesses by
calling for a fast resolution to the invasion of Ukraine.
Distancing itself from the official Kremlin line,
the statement from the board of directors headed by Maganov expressed the company's
deepest concerns about the tragic events in Ukraine and
called for the soonest termination of the armed conflict.
They went on to say we strongly support a lasting ceasefire and
a settlement of problems through serious negotiations and diplomacy.
Sounds like they want peace in the country.
They want everything to chill out, enough of all this negative,
enough of the death enough of the fighting.
Well, it's not the only time that someone has said something like this and
ended this way.
On February 25th, one day after President Putin ordered troops across
the Ukrainian border Alexander Tyulakov, a deputy general director for
the treasury of Gazprom, Russia's energy giant, was found dead in his garage.
This is another guy.
The report described his death also as a suicide.
And in April Vladislav Avayev, a former deputy president of Gazprombank,
one of the largest Russian lenders was found dead in an apartment in Moscow
along with the bodies of his wife and his daughter tragically.
And in May Alexander Subbotin, a former Lukoil executive had been found
dead in a basement of a house in Mytishchi, a town outside of Moscow.
Everyone who knows all those names, those towns, and
names, I profusely apologize, but the pattern here is troubling.
Let's put it that way.
>> Yeah, so first of all, the most important part of the things that JR
told you is that Lukoil is the biggest oil company, giant, very important in Russia.
And they criticized Putin for invading Ukraine.
And then all of a sudden their top executives are all dead.
What an amazing coincidence.
Now the last one that he lead you, the guy's dead in the basement,
who knows if it was foul play or not, that one is not as obvious.
Okay, we don't know.
But the first story of the guy who had the severe illness and
the heart attack and fell out the window.
I mean I'm sure there's some award-winning journalist right now going no,
it could happen.
There's all those codes you plug in your iPhone you trip while having a heart
attack and a severe illness, you fall out the window and
you just happen to be one of the top critics of Putin happens all the time.
Happens all the time, okay, does it?
Well, in Russia it does, and with shocking regularity and
not just to business executives that have criticized Putin and
found themselves in the middle of a heart attack while falling out a window.
It is also happening diplomats over and over again.
10 diplomats mysteriously died right after the 2016 election.
These are facts. You can look it up.
Axioms, Guardian anywhere you like, okay?
Every one of them seemed mysterious,
but I'm going to read you some of my favorites, okay?
A diplomat Peter Polyakov was shot dead in his Moscow apartment, potential suicide.
His gun was found under the sink.
Did he put it under the sink after he shot himself?
Curious minds want to know.
On the morning of the US election, Russian diplomat Sergei Cregov fell
from the roof of the Russian consulate in New York and had blunt force injuries.
But Russian officials said he died of a heart attack.
Well there you go again.
Guys on the roof there's the ipad cord trips over it,
falls off the roof, and has a heart attack while falling off the roof.
Perfectly innocent.
By the way, US authorities,
you might want to investigate a lot of these were on American grounds.
It's ridiculous that people have not been thoroughly investigated for these.
Lawyer for Putin Eminem Nikolai Golkov was reportedly thrown from a window.
March, there is the window again, March 21st in Moscow.
The Russian security forces recording the axions here.
Russian security forces reported,
Golkov fell while trying to move a bathtub in his apartment.
>> [LAUGH].
>> That was my favorite,
because you're always moving bathtubs right next to the window.
And then watching the eagles the court again.
God damn it, another one fell out the window.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Okay,
award winning journalist right now.
A gray zone typing out what could happen.
It could.
George this is outrageous.
The young church with no evidence,
could many people have tripped over a bathtub falling out of windows.
That happened to be Russian Vladimir Putin opponents.
Just a total coincidence.
Total another coincidence, okay?
And then last one.
This is not during the election, it was before the election,
November 2015 Mikhail Lesin, founder of the media company RT.
Back when RT was not just Russian propaganda or Putin propaganda,
dead in a Washington hotel room.
The Russian media said, it was a heart attack.
The Coroner said it was blunt force injury.
Again, he might have had a heart attack after they bashed his head in or
while they were bashing his head.
But I'm sure it was all a coincidence.
Reed Grayzone, they'll tell you Putin is perfectly innocent of all of those.
>> I really liked the bathtub one because it was like
someone walked into the apartment right after he fell.
And the police were just like how did this happen?
And the person standing there with their arms still outside the window from pushing
him was like, he was moving the bathtub, just like off the top of their head.
[LAUGH]. They looked around the room,
they saw a bathtub and they're like, yeah, why not?
He was moving the bathtub [LAUGH] just makes no sense.
How often do you move a bathtub?
But I will say my 10th-grade language arts teacher
gave us the word defenestration as a vocabulary word.
And I remember specifically arguing with her that this is a word I'll never use
again in my life.
So I bet she's feeling really vindicated right now.
For anyone who doesn't know defenestration is killing someone by pushing them out
of a window.
A [LAUGH] couple of cases of that.
Yeah, I mean, I've thought about it.
The disease he had was heart disease.
He was going to the window to get some air.
He trips, he falls, he has a heart attack in midair because of heart disease,
the fearful of hitting the ground, and then he dies.
I mean that's all those things put together.
The most possible of course, the most reasonable answer to this,
really merges all these different accounts.
Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there was nothing underhanded at work here,
nothing shady going on.
>> Remember we always talk about at least not always at least before when Trump was
in office.
And also what conservatives say.
Now there's so many outlandish, crazy conspiracies are just stories that they
tell their followers about what's happening.
What has happened and took across.
And we talked about the multiple times today,
the things he just says to his audience and it's comical.
But the thing is remember how much Donald Trump was fawning to be the next Putin or
did it be a Kim Jong-un and all this.
He loves this kind of approach cuz that's how he wants to live.
He wants to do whatever he wants and then somebody gets shoved out of a window.
He can be like, yeah, he was moving a bathtub.
It doesn't matter how outlandish it is, and in fact,
it's probably benefits outlandish because then you can know everyone will go.
I know that's not what happened and they'll go, you're right-.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Now think about what you may want to
say or do in the future.
That's how Donald Trump said he wants to live.
He wants to dictate his country and that people be afraid once he says something.
He's got [INAUDIBLE].
>> Jerry, that's a really good point and propaganda is a hell of a drug.
So that's why if Tiger Carlson can get his audience to believe that Taylor Lorenz,
is that Che Guevara ideological cornerstone of the Democratic Party.
Would it be hard for them to get their audience to believe if Trump comes back
into office that people started having heart
attacks while after tripping out of windows half a dozen times?
And my guess is that would not be hard for the Republican voters to believe at all.
And that is scary.
>> 100%, once you've they've discovered what they believe,
they'll keep pushing it.