{"id":2244,"date":"2025-07-07T19:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/former-russian-transport-minister-roman-starovoyt-kills-himself-hours-after-putin-sacked-him\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T19:43:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T19:43:23","slug":"former-russian-transport-minister-roman-starovoyt-kills-himself-hours-after-putin-sacked-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/former-russian-transport-minister-roman-starovoyt-kills-himself-hours-after-putin-sacked-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Russian transport minister Roman Starovoyt kills himself hours after Putin sacked him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Russia&rsquo;s Ex-transport minister, Roman Starovoyt, died by suicide after being sacked by President Vladimir Putin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starovoyt shot himself in a Moscow suburb after the dismissal was announced, Russian news agencies reported. As per the authorities, his body was found in his car.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, President Putin had signed a decree sacking Starovoyt, who was appointed to the post in May 2024. He later signed another decree appointing his deputy, Andrey Nikitin, as the country&rsquo;s acting transport minister.<\/p>\n<p>Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said that an investigation is underway to establish the circumstances behind the death of the former minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Starovoyt had served as the governor of Russia&rsquo;s Kursk Oblast before being appointed as transport minister.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Kursk Oblast official Aleksei Smirnov, who had previously served as Starovoit&rsquo;s deputy, had provided testimony implicating Starovoit. Smirnov himself was arrested earlier on suspicion of embezzling 1 billion rubles (over $12 million) during the construction of defensive structures in the border region.&nbsp; Officials are investigating the large-scale theft of state funds in Kursk Oblast, with several of Starovoit&rsquo;s former deputies remaining under suspicion, including Smirnov, who briefly served as acting governor, The Kyiv Independent reported.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>(This is a developing story)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Former Russian transport minister Roman Starovoyt kills himself hours after Putin sacked him<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&rsquo;s Ex-transport minister, Roman Starovoyt, died by suicide after being sacked by President Vladimir Putin.&nbsp; Starovoyt shot himself in a Moscow suburb after the dismissal was announced, Russian news agencies reported. As per the authorities, his body was found in his car.&nbsp; Earlier in the day, President Putin had signed a decree sacking Starovoyt, who&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/former-russian-transport-minister-roman-starovoyt-kills-himself-hours-after-putin-sacked-him\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Former Russian transport minister Roman Starovoyt kills himself hours after Putin sacked him&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}