Friends cast suspicion over balcony fall death of Russian reporter

Local police deny foul play after journalist Maksim Borodin plummets from fifth-floor flat

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A Russian investigative journalist who covered the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria at the hands of US forces has died after falling from his fifth-floor flat.

Local officials say that Maksim Borodin’s apartment in Yekaterinburg, eastern Russia, was locked from the inside, indicating that the incident was unlikely to be criminal. But the editor-in-chief at Novy Den, the newspaper where Borodin worked, said there was “nothing to support a verdict of suicide”, adding that the reporter had “big plans for his personal life and his career”.

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