Russian minister dies by suicide hours after getting fired by Putin, officials say
Ivana Kottasová, Anna Chernova and Svitlana Vlasova
Tue, 8 July 2025 at 7:15 AM SGT4-min read
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pictured meeting Roman Starovoit on January 30, 2025 in the Kremlin. - Kremlin
Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit died by suicide on Monday, just hours after Russian President
Vladimir Putin fired him from the job, officials said.
Starovoit was dismissed by
Putin on Monday morning. The decree announcing his dismissal was published on the official Kremlin website, with his deputy Andrey Nikitin appointed acting minister.
Asked by reporters for the reasons behind Starovoit’s dismissal, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denied this was due to a “lack of trust,” but he did not give any alternative reason.
