The ex publisher of a Soviet-era mouthpiece has became the latest Russian bigwig to die in a fall from a window — one of dozens officials to die under mysterious circumstances in recent months, according to local reports.

Vyacheslav Leontyev, 87, who once led the Communist Party’s Pravda newspaper before the Soviet Union’s collapse, was found dead outside his Moscow apartment complex on Sunday.

Police said he jumped after suffering a “nervous breakdown,” the state-run TASS state news agency reported.

Following Leontyev’s death, exiled journalist Andrey Malgin claimed the late publisher had intimate knowledge of the money funneling through the Communist Party, which remains the second-largest political party in Russia. 5

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“Falls from windows continue,” Malgin wrote on social

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