A Russian bank official has died after plummeting from a tall window of her Moscow apartment.
Kristina Baikova, 28, who was the vice-president of Loko Bank, fell out of the apartment window on Khodynsky Boulevard on the evening of June 23.
Tragically, she died on the scene as a result of her injuries.
She is said to have been spending time with a friend called Andrei, 34, who was with Kristina on the eleventh floor.
He claims that Kristina contacted him asking him to come for a drink before he "went out onto the parapet and fell down", BAZA reports.
Recent events in Russia have raised fears of looming assassination attempts after Yevgeny Prigozhin sought to wage a mutiny against the military leadership in the Kremlin.
He is now reportedly staying in a "windowless" hotel room because he's scared that assassins sent by Putin could push him out, which is said to be his calling card for killing off those who stand in his way.
In exchange for his co-operation, the Kremlin has decided it will not press charges against him or his rag tag bunch of hardened guns-for-hire - an unimaginable agreement considering members of the public can be jailed for publicly criticising the Russian leadership.
His mercenaries were given the choice of following their leader, enlisting in the Russian Armed Forces, or returning home - despite having been responsible for slaughtering 15 Russian airmen during the insurrection.
Putin branded him a "traitor" during his address to the country over the weekend.
Many other *individuals" considered treacherous by the Kremlin have met gruesome fates, including being thrown from windows and their deaths being branded misadventure.
News of Prigozhin's current hideout was revealed by Senator Mark Walker, the chairman of the US Senate Intelligence Committee.
He said that intelligence showed he was staying in a hotel without windows, which is a clear indication of his current "mindset".
He continued: “There have been a number of Russian entity individuals who have run afoul of Putin over the last year and a half, who have mysteriously fallen out of fifth, sixth or seventh floor windows.”
The decision to give Prigozhin a pass has not gone down well in the Kremlin, with hawks critcising him for dropping the charges.
Former FSB officer Igor Girkin - who led Russian-aligned forces during the Ukraine crisis - branded the decision "pitiful".
Andrey Gurulyov - another former military commander - added: “Who gave the command? Who launched the rocket? Traitors have to be destroyed!”
