Andrey Badalov, vice president of Russia’s state-owned pipeline operator Transneft, died early 4 July after apparently falling from a high-rise window in the affluent Rublyovka district on Moscow’s western edge, according to state news agency Tass. The 62-year-old’s body was found beneath his building on Rublyovskoye Highway, and law-enforcement officials told Tass the preliminary cause of death is suicide. Investigators are reviewing the circumstances and a note reportedly addressed to his wife, while Transneft confirmed the executive’s death without elaborating. Badalov had overseen Transneft’s digital-transformation program since becoming vice president in July 2021. The Kremlin-controlled company operates more than 70,000 kilometers of pipelines that ship about 80 percent of Russia’s crude and a third of its refined products. His death extends a pattern of unexplained fatalities among senior figures in Russia’s energy industry—at least a dozen since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022—including the 2022 window fall of Lukoil chairman Ravil Maganov, intensifying calls for fuller investigations into the sector’s mounting toll.