Minister of Transport Roman Starovoy likely killed himself hours after being fired by President Vladimir Putin.

Putin fired Roman Starovoit, Russia's transport minister, from his post on the morning of July 7. A few hours later, the media reported the death of the latter. True, Starovoit could have been already dead at the time of his release. This was reported by "24 Kanal" with reference to the Russian media.

By Gleb Stolyarov and Andrew Osborn (Reuters) -Russia's sacked transport minister has been found dead in his car outside Moscow with a gunshot wound and the principal hypothesis is that he took his own life,