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Another top manager in Russia's oil and gas sector found dead

Vitaly Robertus, 54, Vice President of the Russian oil and gas firm Lukoil, has been found dead. He is the fourth Lukoil top manager to die since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

"We are deeply saddened to announce that Vitaly Vladimirovich Robertus, Vice President of the company, died suddenly at the age of 54," the press release of Lukoil reads.

Robertus’s death was the fourth among Lukoil’s top managers in the last two years.

Vladimir Nekrasov, Chairman of Lukoil’s Board of Directors, died in October 2023 from acute heart failure.

Nekrasov headed Lukoil after Ravil Maganov, the previous chairman, died after falling out of a window of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow in August 2022.

Alexander Subbotin, the company's former top manager, died in May 2022; his body was found in a private house. An investigation concluded that Subotin also died of acute heart failure.

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