Alexandre Tiounine, CEO of the Russian company JSC NPK KHIMPROMORZHERING, would have “committed suicide”. His body was found near his car, on a road on the edge of a forest in the Moscow region, emergency services said at the Russian state news agency Tass.
“The body of Alexandre Tiounine, was found near his car, on a road on the edge of a forest in the Moscow region. The first observations suggest suicide, “said a source to the agency whose headquarters are in Moscow.
Next to the body of the director of this subsidiary of the public nuclear giant Rosatom, a hunting rifle and a handwritten note were found, according to the Russian agency.
According to the Moscow Times, another Russian media but qualified by the power of “undesirable organization”, the letter indicated that Alexandre Tiounine had decided to end his days after five years of increasing depression, which he described as “worsening from year to year”. Russian state media like Tass hastened to qualify this suicide case.
Hecatombe among Russian leaders
The death of this new leader is added to an increasing and disturbing list of “unexplained” deaths among the senior leaders of the energy, nuclear and industry sectors in Russia since the start of the war against Ukraine.
Tiounine has run Khimprominzhiniring since April 2016, supervising the production of carbon composites, especially for aviation. A company that participates in the Russian war effort in Ukraine, particularly in the development of drones in war 2.0 to which the belligerents are engaged. The company was then integrated into Umatex, a rosatom division specializing in advanced materials which was struck by American sanctions in February 2023.
According to many Western sources of investigation, Rosatom’s governance is entirely subject to Putin who uses it as a geopolitical weapon of penetration of foreign markets and dependence on combustible or power plant management services.
Tiounine is now the 20th senior Russian leader to die in mysterious circumstances since February 2022. On September 8, in the region of Kaliningrad, the authorities had discovered the decapitated body of Alexei Sinitsyn, leader in the mining sector and fertilizers. In August, the sudden dead of Dmitry Osipov, president of Uralkali, and Mikhail Kenin, founder of the Samolet construction giant, also raised questions in the West.