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A former official from Russia’s ruling party and top state executive has been found dead inside his apartment in what appears to be a suicide.

Yury Kotler, 50, a former state-run RIA Novosti, Time magazine and The New York Times journalist, served on the United Russia party’s supreme council in 2012-2016 and on its expert council since February 2018. He was a senior manager at several state-owned companies, including VTB bank and Russia’s largest port operator Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP).

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