“The circumstances of his death are highly suspicious... Why would a person who’s committing suicide keep $2,600 in their pocket as they jump out of a building?”
Ten days after the sudden death of an outspoken Kremlin critic in Washington, D.C., was deemed a “suicide” in the press, friends ofRapoport, 52, was found dead in front of a lavish apartment building on the evening of Aug. 14 by police officers said to be responding to reports of a “jumper,” according to a preliminary police report.
“Who puts a hat on before jumping out a window?,” said Igor Shoifot, who told The Daily Beast he’d known Rapoport for 10 years and corresponded with him “almost daily” over the past year and a half. Adding to the mystery, the first details of Rapoport’s death came not from the American press, but from a Russian reporter based in Los Angeles, Yunia Pugacheva, who posted on Telegram that the Latvia-born American businessman had “released his dog into a park with money and a suicide note” before taking his own life., with tributes pouring out for a man whose name was once tightly linked to the nightclub scene in Moscow, where he co-founded the famous Soho Rooms in 2007.
Frishberg said he’d spoken to Rapoport recently, and he had clearly been making plans for his return to Kyiv, where he was an outspoken supporter of Ukraine and a staunch critic of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Frishberg noted that police had immediately declared “no signs of foul play” in Lesin’s death, just as they did with Rapoport. “The pattern in America repeats itself,” he said.
The Daily Beast could not independently confirm whether Rapoport had ever received such threats. Just hours before leaving Russia that June, he posted on Facebook that “it's sad to leave Russia, but for thoughtful people, living here has become unbearable and disgusting.”
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