Russian investigative journalist dies after balcony fall

MOSCOW: A Russian journalist who wrote on Moscow's "shadow army" in Syria has died after falling from the balcony of his fifthfloor flat, but investigators said on Monday they were not treating the death as suspicious.Maksim Borodin fell from his apartment in Yekaterinburg, a major city in the Urals, last week and died from his injuries in hospital on Sunday, news agencies reported. He worked for the news service Noviy Den (New Day) and recently wrote on the deaths of employees of the so-called "Wagner Group", the private army Moscow is using in Syria.

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