Military Noir. Mysterious deaths of gas financiers

With an interval of three days - two identical incidents. A serious person from the gas industry kills his wife and daughter and ends with himself. On Monday, in Moscow, the former vice-president of Gazprombank Vladislav Avaev and his family members and his family members were found on the University Prospekt, on Thursday the same thing happened in Spain in the city of Lloreyt de Mar with the family of former chief accountant and shareholder of Novatek Sergey Protoseni. The difference is only in the method of murder - the wife and daughter of Avaev were shot, the wife and daughter of Protosen were chopped with an ax (Protosen himself was discovered with a gunshot wound).

It is clear that it could have coincided, it is clear that the most exotic plots can walk in pairs, but it is also clear that the similarity and simultaneity of the two tragedies by default have both rumors and conspiracy suspicions, and the obvious distrust of official versions, even if only in two cases the information emanates from the Russian police, and in the other, the unprofitable people speak of suicide. Spaniards. An experienced conspiracyologist can connect both the duels of Pushkin and Lermontov, and the suicide of Yesenin and Mayakovsky, and, say, the fall from the windows of the top managers of the CPSU of Kruchina, Pavlov and the fox after August 1991, and nowadays, and contemporaries did not come to the head of thirty years ago, and did not occur to the head not to consider unrelated episodes; It was only possible to argue about whether they themselves were thrown out of the windows, or someone helped them, while the difference between the most popular versions is not so great-it is clear that if in the first weeks after the CPSU crash, three response workers who were engaged in party foreign exchange business are reasonable to connect their death with the concealment of secrets, and how exactly the concealment was realized, the issue of a secondary. And what can you think about the mysterious deaths of gas financiers now?

The key word is “now”; This is the most natural approach, not conspiracy - there is a war, it is unprecedented, it makes adjustments to everything that is happening and is being made in Russia now. The adoption of political decisions, business, culture, media - there is nothing at all that one could look at without thinking about the war. When people die even in the rear during the war, it is worth proceeding from the fact that the incident cannot but have points of contact with the war. The gas industry is historically systematic for the economy of post -Soviet Russia. Even now, when the war caused unprecedented sanctions, gas corporations, including specific Gazprombank and Novatek (Avaev, by the way, was not only the Bank Vice President, but also the Novatek shareholder, that is, both deaths can be called Novatekovsky), they are slightly away from the general array of Russian companies subjected to international pressure. Russia was disconnected by Swift, international companies and investors leave Russia, but Europe has not yet refused Russian gas, and this is insured on the one hand from the most cruel sanctions, on the other, in the context of all other gloomy changes in the Russian economy, changes the previous distributed load on concentrated risks concentrated with all related risks. If Gazprombank turned out to be for objective reasons the only unforgettable Russian State Bank, we can imagine how its meaning has increased, say, from the point of view of financing the residencies of Russian intelligence (and if we reason even more cinematographic, then why not allow that when the aircraft with the cache or even, ultimately, with drugs, Novatekov tankers get truly strategic), and people who have been on the gas market and only on it suddenly ended up outside the comfort zone, in the wind, in the center of intersection of many interests and state-owned companies, and special services, and those personalities that themselves are more influential and dangerous than any special services. The risks-and to cross the road to someone, and to be more knowledgeable than the living person should be, and make some annoying mistake-in the new conditions increase many times. Here, everyone turns out to be a steep, and the question was killed or himself is also interesting only for lovers of mysterious stories, because the very fact of death in changed political conditions is primary.

But, we repeat, it could also coincide. It’s just in nervous time and fantasies nervous, not based on anything except fears and stereotypes. The layman neurotized by the news looks at everyday murder/suicide and speculates all sorts of horrors, placing random deaths in the context of relevant (and beyond the measure of monstrous) news. It is more reasonable to proceed from the fact that Avaev and Protosen had some kind of reason to end with himself and kill relatives, there are few deadly tragic situations in life-illness, debts, family affairs, and even drugs, it happens. But after all, those who look at the dead and the suicidated have their circumstances. Speaking rudely, a cancer patient, who himself thinks about suicide, nods knowingly, reading the news that someone shot himself (by the way, some tabloids, bending a gas drama, expanded the list of mysterious deaths in the industry up to four, adding Gazprom to it with a suicide note just about painkillers).

And now, for example, the news about Avaev and Protosen reads some typical representative of the current Russian winding-state rich elite, a person who spent years on achieving understandable life goals-so that a lot of money, so that real estate in Rublevka and on azure, so that the children are arranged, so that the assets bring profit, and what is still supposed there. He played according to the rules, did not believe anything other than money, and lived, following his faith, in relative harmony with the authorities and with the world around him. He did not believe in the war and did not want war, the war confused him all the cards, changed his plans. At work, he is told to open a branch in Mariupol, and in Moscow to build subordinates with the letter Z, but he does not want to - either from pacifist reasons, or from the unwillingness to get into the black lists of Western Ministry of Finance, does not matter. And so he sits, reading crazy news, and thinks - to blame quietly, like Chubais? To arrange a demarche in Moscow, like Ovsyannikova? Write a post on the social network , like Zaspavalov from the same Gazprombank, or a column in FT , like Panov from Aeroflot? He sits, thinks, and reads about Archosparning.

He knows as much as we found in the Spanish house, the family is cut off, at the very bullet in his head, the police talks about suicide. He reads and does not believe in suicide. He thought for many days about the risks with which any step was fraught with. Plant, kill, burn the car, rape their daughter, but anything. With these thoughts he learns about Protosen, and does not doubt that this is not suicide, but the family was sitting on the veranda of the Spanish house, and then a shadow hung over the tablecloth, and an unfamiliar voice said in Russian “Take the phone from him”.

And there are already no thoughts about the escape or the demarche. They will catch up everywhere, find and make you regret everything about everything. And the typical representative of the Russian elite sighs, drives all his courageous thoughts, and answers the boss that yes, is ready to go to Mariupol to open the branch, and the subordinates tomorrow will be lined up by the Z-string of exactly nine zero-zero, the shooting was ordered. And in front of the eyes there are two women cut off with an ax and a man with a gunshot hole in her head.

Who asks why the Russian elite is silent, why there are no serious people who would say their “no” aloud - imagine that they feel and not even the top of the state -owned company, but the familiar Dmitry Peskov in these weeks, and what are the threats, and what are the risks. This does not justify them, probably, but at least explains. Even if Avaev and Protosen really just committed suicide for some domestic reasons.