Russia: two top managers died suddenly for week

A series of mysterious deaths of top managers, which covered the Russian gas industry in the spring and summer, by the end of the year reached the defense-industrial complex.

Moscow Times writes that at the end of December two high -ranking heads of Russian defense plants died suddenly, which the Russian government spent 20 trillion rubles over the past 10 years.

December 25 in the Main Clinical Hospital named after Burdenko, Alexei Maslov, a special representative for military -technical cooperation of Uralvagonzavod, the largest tank manufacturer in the Russian Federation, passed away. Army General, a former commander of the Ground Forces, and then the Chief Military Representative of the Russian Federation at NATO, Maslov “suddenly died at the 70th year of his life,” the UVZ press service said, without giving details.

A day earlier, on December 24, another senior group manager Alexander Buzakov, General Director of the Admiralty Shipyard, the oldest and one of the largest shipbuilding enterprises in Russia, died in St. Petersburg.

“Admiralty shipyards” is the main supplier of submarines for the Black Sea Fleet. Of the 7 ships, as part of the 4th separate Black Sea Fleet Brigade, six belong to project 636, which the Admiralty Shipyards have been engaged since 1997.