BACKGROUND
1)”WÄHREND EINER RAZZIA: Russischer Sänger stirbt nach Fenstersturz in St. Petersburg,” Die Welt, den 8. Februar 2025?
2) “Russian singer dies after window fall in St. Petersburg,” Die Welt,February 8, 2025.
So many prominet Russiansvare falling out of their windows to their deaths that one has to seriously question the design of the windoes from which citizens keep falling.
This is a problem leading Russian schools of architecture should br working on as top priority.
Given the fact that many of the victims are highly educated, often with degrees from Russia’s most prestigious universities, “contributory victim stupidity” can be ruled out as a major cause of these tragic accidents.
Behind closed doors, officials are seriouslyinvestigating the possibility that Russian window design may be at fault. It is well known that Soviet and more recently Russian window design has not kept pace with the latest developmentin home and office design and construction in tge leading Western countries.
Soviet and Russian window design, often unchanged since the 1920’s, been blamed for similar accidents, which increased sharply beginning in Lenin’s and Stalin’s times.
Parycularly noteworthy in the present case is that the victim fell out his window while a police raid on his apsrtment was underway.
Experts cite this happenstanceascsyggesring the desirability of a change in police protocols for raiding an apartment.
One of the:first things the police should do, according to these experts. is to close the windows.