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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Moscow, July 7 (Xinhua) — Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit was found dead on Monday, several hours after he was dismissed from his post the same day, various sources reported.
"Today in the Odintsovo urban district, the body of the former Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Roman Vladimirovich Starovoit was found with a gunshot wound in his personal car," said Svetlana Petrenko, official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, on Monday. "Investigative bodies of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region are working on the scene, establishing the circumstances of the incident. The main version is suicide."
According to a report published earlier on Monday on the Kremlin website, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the same day dismissing R. Starovoit from the post of Minister of Transport. As the press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov told journalists, the wording of the decree does not contain the words “loss of trust.”
Roman Starovoit was born in 1972 in Kursk. In May 2024, he was appointed Minister of Transport of Russia. Before that, he served as Governor of the Kursk Region. –0–
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