LEONID SHULMAN, 60

WHO: Head of transport for government-controlled Gazprom Invest, which owns 60 percent of Russia’s natural gas resources. WHEN: Jan. 30 WHERE: Wrists slit in his cottage outside Leningrad. Note was left to stage assassination as a suicide.

WHY: Three days before his death, the European Union failed to certify Gazprom’s completed $8.4 billion undersea Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Germany, which is designed to bypass heavily taxed pipes running through Ukraine.