President Putin sacked his transport minister. Hours later, his body was found in a park with a gunshot wound to the head.

A Russian transport minister has died from a gunshot wound amid uncertainty over whether it occurred before or after he was abruptly fired by the Kremlin. Officials say Roman Starovoit took his own life,

A sacked Russian official who was found dead with a gunshot wound in a park outside Moscow was implicated in an official investigation into the embezzlement of funds for strengthening the border with Ukraine,