Warned before death

Journalists, friends, colleagues do not believe in the “suicide” of military columnist for the Kommersant newspaper Ivan Safronov. Safronov’s death, as Kommersant writes today, may be due to the fact that in the last weeks of his life he was investigating schemes for the supply of Russian weapons to Syria and Iran. But he decided that he would not write about it for now, because he was warned: if it becomes public, there will be a big international scandal, and the FSB will definitely open a criminal case into the disclosure of state secrets and “bring it to the end.”