{"id":63,"date":"2025-07-07T16:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/?p=63"},"modified":"2025-07-07T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:36:29","slug":"russian-minister-found-dead-after-firing-no-life-without-bribes-note-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/2025\/07\/russian-minister-found-dead-after-firing-no-life-without-bribes-note-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Minister Found Dead After Firing: \u201cNo Life Without Bribes,\u201d Note Says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Russian_Minister.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Russian_Minister.jpg 750w, https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Russian_Minister-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailypost.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Russian_Minister-18x12.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MOSCOW \u2014<\/strong> A senior Russian minister was found dead Monday in what authorities are calling an apparent suicide, just hours after President Vladimir Putin dismissed him from office amid a growing corruption investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Russian state media, the unnamed minister\u2014whose portfolio reportedly included infrastructure development and regional subsidies\u2014left a handwritten note that read: <em>\u201cLife doesn&#8217;t have meaning if taking bribes is not possible.\u201d<\/em><br>Russian social media erupted in a mixture of cynicism and dark humor following the news, with one popular post reading, \u201cHe died doing what he loved: avoiding accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2014 A senior Russian minister was found dead Monday in what authorities are calling an apparent suicide, just hours after President Vladimir Putin dismissed him from office amid a growing corruption investigation. According to Russian state media, the unnamed minister\u2014whose portfolio reportedly included infrastructure development and regional subsidies\u2014left a handwritten note that read: \u201cLife&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypost.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}