‘Sudden Russian Death Syndrome’ strikes again as bank vice-president Kristina Baikova, 28, dies in mystery

Patients were apparently not allowed on the side of the building he fell from so that only added to the mystery. A packet of cigarettes was supposedly found near the spot he fell from, leading to suggestions that he had gone there to smoke in secret.

In December, the creative director of an IT company, Grigory Kochenov, plunged from his apartment balcony and fell to his death while Russian authorities searched his apartment.