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In Moscow, the chair of the Russian energy giant Lukoil has died under mysterious circumstances. Russia’s TASS news agency reported Ravil Maganov fell from the sixth-story window of a Moscow hospital Thursday morning, then later reported he had taken his own life. Magonov presided over a meeting of Lukoil’s board shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, where board members called for a speedy end to the conflict and expressed sympathy for the war’s victims. Maganov is the latest of several high-profile Russian business elites to die under unusual circumstances in recent months.

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