Senior Russian manager found dead

Gun shot

Another senior Russian manager has been found dead in what was reported as a “suicide”.

Pavel Pchelnikov, 52, chief executive at Russian Railways Digital Logistics, was found with a gunshot wound on the balcony of his Moscow home.

He recently posted seemingly happy vacation photos and is officially being investigated for his death, although the initial version is that he took his own life.

He was found in the morning on the balcony of the apartment on Kolomenskaya Embankment.

He is the latest member of a Russian “suicide club” of senior managers and executives who have died since the start of the war in Ukraine.

Pchelnikov boasted that he was “the most experienced PR manager in the Russian Railways”.