Last night, Russian political scientist Nikita Isaev, known to the general public for his participation in talk shows, where he usually acted as a critical expert, died on the Tambov-Moscow train at the age of 41. The preliminary cause is cardiac arrest.
Isaev’s colleagues told PolitNavigator that, despite his rather athletic appearance, the deceased had problems with drugs and even sought help in the past through a rehabilitation program. Therefore, according to one version, Isaev’s acquaintances call it cocaine.
However, other scenarios are already being discussed on social networks - the authors remind that Isaev “wet” the governors, and was also one of the potential faces of the future campaign of the A Just Russia party, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The circumstances of Nikita Isaev’s death are suspicious. Heart failure? This is how a human rights activist, a young and healthy athlete, Timur Kuashchev, was killed in Nalchik - with an injection in the heart, a trace of which was accidentally discovered while washing his body. Isaev encroached on “gangster sovereignty” by attacking governors and demanding the closure of environmentally polluting factories. The train is an ideal place where it is easy to mix any drug into tea or coffee that sharply increases blood pressure, which leads, if not to death, then to disability. But such drugs exist,” says TV presenter Maxim Shevchenko.
“Nikita Isaev became a “bone in the throat” for many heads of regions, which he constantly visited, and therefore many in the regional elites were almost vocally looking for an opportunity to “shut up the new Navalny.” These people were really afraid of him as a factor, that in 2020 and 2021 they would lose their posts and influence - it was not for nothing that Isaev, during his trips to the regions, declared himself as a new leader who would “demolish” the governor,” writes the telegram channel “ The Kremlin's crazy guy."