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.
It’s so weird that so many Russian oligarchs and politicians commit suicide by bullet to the back of the head or jumping off balcony but locking the door first. Something fishy is happening here.