What the firing and death of a transport minister reveals about Putin’s Russia

George Mihalcea

CNN  —  As scattered details of the apparent suicide of Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoit trickled in via state media on Monday, one stood out. Near his body, the Kommersant newspaper  reported,  investigators found a Glock pistol that Starovoit had been given as an award. In October 2023, in his previous job as governor of Russia’s Kursk region, Starovoit was pictured in a local news  article  being presented with a velvet-boxed firearm from the region’s interior ministry for

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