Seventh Putin pal dies in months after 'mysterious plunge from boat'

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Vladimir Putin to head up the development of natural resources in Russia ’s Arctic territories, apparently fell overboard while sailing his private yacht off the country’s Pacific coast.

Pechorin, 39, is the latest senior official linked to Russia’s energy sector and the Kremlin to die in suspicious circumstances.READ MORE: High-profile Russians keep mysteriously 'falling' to their deaths from windowsHe reportedly fell off the side of a boat in the waters close to Russky Island near Cape Ignatiev, said Komsomolskaya Pravda.His body was found after a search lasting more than a day.

Development of the Arctic - a rich source of oil and gas for Russia - is seen as essential amid sanctions and unprecedented economic problems facing Putin’s economy due to his war in Ukraine.

Pechorin also had responsibility for the air industry across the vast east of Russia, a sector under strain from Western economic curbs.He recently addressed the Eastern Economic Forum led by Putin in a session aimed at beating sanctions called ‘Everyone has their Own Route: The Logistics of a Changed World’.Pechorin is the latest in a series of unexplained deaths among Russian power-brokers from just before and during the war.There was also an Arctic linked to the death of Yevgeny Zinichev, 55, Emergencies Minister and a former Putin bodyguard.A year ago he perished in a mystery fall at a waterfall in the Russian Arctic.He was being groomed by Vladimir Putin as his possible successor, say some experts, and there have been claims from a friend that he was murdered.Putin appeared distraught at his funeral.Several other members of Putin’s inner circle, including oil tycoon Ravil Maganov, Alexander Tyulakov, a senior Gazprom financial and security official,.