British-educated composer 'dies after falling from tenth-floor window of his Russian home as cops interview him about donating funds to Ukraine'

A British-educated singer-songwriter was found dead yesterday having fallen from his tenth floor apartment moments after Russian cops stormed the building to interview him amid suspicions he had 'donated funds to Ukraine's Armed Forces'. Vadim Stroykin, 58, became the latest Russian to take a suspiciously timed nosedive out of a high window as police performed a search at his flat on Parfenovskaya Street in central St. Petersburg Born in Russia's Ural Mountains, Stroykin forged a career in the arts, graduating from the British College of Journalism before becoming a radio host working for the Yekaterinburg bureau of the station 'Echo of Moscow '. Stroykin joins a horrifyingly long list of Russians to have fallen to their deaths or sustained life-changing injuries in highly irregular circumstances Artur Pryakhin died after falling from a fifth floor window Colonel Alexey Zubkov - an employee for the Russian Investigative Committee - is fighting for his life after he plummeted 40ft from a bathroom window One of the most high-profile deaths came in August 2022 when Ravil Maganov, chairman of Lukoil, Russia's second-largest oil company, fell from a sixth floor window at Moscow's elite Central Clinical Hospital, also known as the Kremlin Clinic. In 2023, leading war official Marina Yankina, 58, head of the financial support department of the Russian Defence Ministry's Western Military District, was found dead after falling from a 16th-floor window in St. Petersburg. There have been a slew of highly suspicious deaths among Russia's political, industrial and military elite since Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine Pryakhin died after falling from a fifth floor window TV channels reported that he lived on the tenth floor and that it was a suicide, claiming he had cancer and left a note - but those reports were vehemently denied by his close friends and relatives.