It was a dramatic start to the week in Russia.

On Monday morning, Vladimir Putin sacked his transport minister, Roman Starovoit.

By the afternoon Starovoit was dead; his body was discovered in a park on the edge of Moscow with a gunshot wound to the head. A pistol, allegedly, beside the body.

Investigators said they presumed the former minister had taken his own life.

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    13 hours ago

    Might be a cultural difference.

    A Finn would be too scared not to react under the contemporary Russian circumstances. They’d work with the motto “I’m basically dead anyway, so this way I at least bear a chance to maybe survive.”