Friday, June 7, 2024 -Larina was a criminal judge for more than 15 years, and her death came months after she suddenly quit the Tagansky Court.
She had acted as a judge in various
high-profile fraud cases.
In 2015, she remanded in custody
artist Pyotr Pavlensky who set fire to a door of the FSB building in Lubyanka
Square in a political protest.
Earlier she gave a judgement against
the hardline National Bolsheviks. And in 2011, Larina sentenced Ministry of
Transport official Vladimir Makarov, accused of sexually abusing his daughter.
Larina is not the only high-ranking Russian
official whose death from falling out of a window has aroused suspicion since
the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In December 2023, Vladimir Egorov, 46 - the
Tobolsk City Duma - dropped to his death from a third-floor window in the city.
He was a member of
Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party, and his corpse was found in
the yard of his house.
In June of that same year, the glamorous
vice-president of a Russian bank reportedly plunged to her death after falling
from the window of her Moscow apartment.
Kristina Baikova, 28, allegedly fell
from her 11th-floor apartment on Khodynsky Boulevard in the early hours. She
died instantly at the scene.
In February, a top Russian defence official
was found dead after plunging 160ft from a tower block window. Marina
Yankina, 58, was discovered by a passerby at the entrance of a house on
Zamshina Street in St Petersburg.
She is believed to have fallen from
the 16th floor to her death.
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