Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.

Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.

The chief executive, Alexei Sinitsyn, is believed to have died by suicide, according to a law enforcement source cited by the Vedomosti business newspaper.

Investigators told state news agencies that Sinitsyn’s body was found with an attached towing cable under a bridge outside the city of Kaliningrad. They said they were establishing the circumstances of his death.

Sinitsyn, 43, was the CEO of K-Potash Service, which has been developing the Nivensky-1 potassium-magnesium deposit in Kaliningrad since 2014. The ambitious project was originally planned to be launched in 2021, but has since been pushed back to 2032.

      • Railcar8095@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Murder was in fact a fairly uncommon event in Ankh-Morpork, but there were a lot of suicides. Walking in the night-time alleyways of The Shades was suicide. Asking for a short in a dwarf bar was suicide. Saying ‘Got rocks in your head?’ to a troll was suicide. You could commit suicide very easily, if you weren’t careful.

        Russia is basically hardcore Anhk-Morpork, but with an even less subtle dictator.

    • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Decapitation is one of the potential outcomes of an improperly orchestrated hanging, though that’s more for a capital punishment. Usually people hang themselves with a short rope and choke themselves out.

            • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              12 hours ago

              This feels like one of them literally and figuratively things.

              As an englishperson i feel inclined to despair. About a lot of things, not so much this though. Thanks for setting me straight

              • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                11 hours ago

                It might be less common in the UK (eg I know you guys still keep the lay/lie distinction commonly but it’s pretty muddled in the US these days), but you can find usage notes in US-based dictionaries:

                the past and past participle hung, as well as hanged, is standard. Hanged is most appropriate for official executions

                he was to be hanged, cut down whilst still alive … and his bowels torn out
                —Louis Allen

                but hung is also used.

                gave orders that she should be hung
                —Peter Quennell

                Hung is more appropriate for less formal hangings.

                by morning I’ll be hung in effigy
                —Ronald Reagan

                https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hang

      • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Sounds like it was a metal towing cable, like from a winch? I could definitely see that taking a head off easier than a sturdy rope.

      • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The Japanese used a second to help preform a self-decapitation. These Russians are so fiercely independent that they do it all by themselves.