Vladimir Nekrasov, chair of the board of directors in Russian Lukoil*, has died unexpectedly, Russian media report.

According to preliminary statements, he died of acute heart failure.

This is the third sudden death among Lukoil's top managers in the past 18 months.

The previous chair of the board of directors fell out of the hospital window on August 1, 2022.

In May of 2022, another top manager died after a seance with the local shamans.

Window, tea, Novichok, heart failure...

Several Russian businessmen, especially with ties to the energy industry, have died suddenly in unclear circumstances in the months following the start of what Moscow calls its special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022.

RosZMI writes that Nekrasov's death has become the seventeenth among major Russian top managers and the tenth among top managers of fuel and energy and closely related companies since the beginning of 2022.

*Lukoil is one of Russia's largest oil companies, second in oil production in Russia.