Russian COVID Scientist Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances

A very well-known scientist in Russia who was working on a COVID-19 vaccine was found dead with a stab wound after plunging from his window in St. Petersburg.

According to the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, Alexander “Sasha” Kagansky, just 45, was dressed only in his underwear when he plummeted to his death from the 14th-floor of his apartment building.

Police believe there was some sort of a struggle before Kagansky fell from the building because of the apparent stab wound.

Russian police say they are looking into the scientist’s suspicious death as a possible homicide and have already questioned another man as a possible suspect.

Kagansky was found by a neighbor on the street outside of his building.

Kagansky was best known for his extensive work on cancer research and also worked as an assistant professor in Vladivostok and spent over a decade working in Edinburgh, Scotland, until several years ago.

Recently he had been working as a director at the Center for Genomic and Regenerative Medicine at Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University developing a vaccine against the coronavirus.