RUSSIA'S grim roll call of high-profile deaths has grown again — this time claiming the man who once controlled the Kremlin’s loudest propaganda voice.

Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, the secretive boss of the Pravda publishing empire, plunged 70ft from the balcony of his Moscow apartment.

Police say they are investigating whether the Saturday night death was an accident, suicide, or foul play.

Leontyev wasn’t just any old Soviet relic.

For decades, he ran Pravda — “Truth” — the mouthpiece of the Communist Party and one of the most powerful media machines of the USSR.

Long after the Soviet collapse, he remained in charge, a man believed to know where the party’s hidden billions were buried.

Exiled journalist Andrey Malgin called it another “strange death”, writing: “The window falls continu

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