俄罗斯一位做调查报道的记者星期四在叶卡捷琳堡五层楼住宅的阳台上坠地后星期日不治身亡。他最近写的报道有关俄罗斯雇佣军在叙利亚丧生。
32岁的波洛丁（Maxim Borodin）的雇主“新闻日”网站说，波洛丁在他住宅阳台下的人行道上被人发现摔伤后送到医院，星期天去世。
当地警方说，他们没有发现任何不正常的情况。但是波洛丁的去世在他的朋友和同事中引发很多揣测。
波洛丁的朋友巴什科夫在脸书上发帖说，波洛丁在他坠地前一天、星期三的早晨曾与他联系，告诉他有一名持枪男子在他的阳台上，还有几名头戴面罩，身穿迷彩服的人在他公寓楼的楼梯上游走。
巴什科夫说，波洛丁一小时后给他打电话，说他搞错了，那些他以为是武装男子的人可能正在进行训练。
波洛丁经常报道俄罗斯一些广泛引人关注的腐败和刑事案件。他今年2月报道，俄罗斯雇佣军在叙利亚代尔祖尔附近与美国军队发生的冲突中丧生。
他去年在俄罗斯独立电视台TV Rain上接受采访，谈论引发争议的俄罗斯电影《玛蒂尔达》，后来被身份不明者用铁棍击打头部。
根据欧洲新闻记者联合会的统计，俄罗斯是全欧洲记者被谋杀最多的国家。
总部设在美国的记者保护委员会说，自从1992年以来，俄罗斯有38名记者被谋杀，其中大部分案件至今仍未破案。
A Russian investigative journalist, who recently wrote about the deaths of Russian mercenaries in Syria, has died after falling from his fifth-floor balcony in the city of Yekaterinburg.
Maxim Borodin, 32, was found badly injured on the pavement under his balcony and taken to a hospital, where he died Sunday, according to his employer, the news website Novy Den (New Day).
Local police said they did not see any foul play, but his death prompted intense speculation among friends and colleagues.
Borodin’s friend, Vyacheslav Bashkov, wrote on Facebook that Borodin contacted him early in the morning on Wednesday, the day before the fall, and told him that there was a man with a gun on his balcony, and that several others in masks and camouflage clothing were lurking in the stairwell leading to his apartment building.
Bashkov said that Borodin had called back an hour later and said he had been mistaken and that he thought the armed men were probably taking part in a training exercise.
Borodin regularly covered high-profile corruption cases and crime in Russia. In February, he broke a story about Russian mercenaries who died in an armed confrontation with U.S. forces near Deir-Ezzor, Syria.
Last year, he gave an interview to a Russian independent channel TV Rain and talked about the controversial film Matilda, then was subsequently hit on the head by an unknown assailant with a metal pipe.
Russia ranks first on the European Federation of Journalists list of countries with the highest number of journalists murdered in Europe.
Since 1992, 38 journalists have been murdered in Russia, according to the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Most of those cases remain unsolved.