A Russian oil executive on Friday fell to his death from a window at his home in western Moscow in what has been ruled a suicide, the latest in a number of high-profile Russians who have died under mysterious circumstances, especially after falling out of windows.

Andrei Badalov, 62, vice president of the state-owned oil pipeline monopoly Transneft, was found dead Friday morning on the ground below the apartment block where he lived, European media outlets reported.

“Badalov’s body was discovered at the bottom of a residential building on Rublyovskoye highway,” a law enforcement source told the Russian-owned Tass news agency. “The preliminary cause of death is suicide.”

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