Do they pick a floor (fifth in this case) that might not actually kill you, and seems likely to leave you laying there suffering horribly for awhile before you die?
Not since the 3rd defenestration of Prague have so many people fell from windows.
The First Defenestration of Prague - Hussites threw at least 4 people from New Town Hall, kicking off the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.
The Second Defenestration was the result of a coup, the burgomaster and seven corpses of city councilors were defenestrated from the Old and New Town Hall.
The Third Defenestration was protestants throwing two catholic regents and their secretary out the third floor window of Prague Castle, fell 70’ and survived. That was one of the beginnings of the Thirty Years War.
Shklyarov is the 4th Russian to fall out a window after talking out about Putin. That’s the same amount that started the largest religious war in European history (8 million people died, there were 110 million Europeans in 1635)
But look at the good news: they have a lot of obviously skilled investigators who can very quickly determine it was an accident.
I bet sometimes the investigators are even able to say in advance that it was an accident.
Sidebar: many year ago I acted against a guy who ran up some massive debts. He fell in with some Russians, who ostensibly bailed him out. Amazingly, he also fell from a window to his death.
The window was fifth floor (sixth if you’re US). It wasn’t the fall that he used to kill himself. It was the landing. He landed on top of the spiked wrought iron railings that marked the boundary between the pavement (sidewalk) and his property.
When you think about it, it’s a really obvious way to commit suicide.
So FSB has trained their officers how to infiltrate a house and pick up someone and throw them over, without leaving any evidence? There’s no way they are just improvising or getting lucky. They seem to be very good at this.