With so many people falling to their deaths, Russia needs to improve its window design
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BACKGROUND
1)”WÄHREND EINER RAZZIA: Russischer Sänger stirbt nach Fenstersturz in St. Petersburg,” Die Welt, den 8. Februar 2025.
2) “DURING A RAID: Russian singer dies after falling from window in St. Petersburg,” Die Welt, February 8, 2025.
So many prominent Russians have been falling out of their windows to their deaths that one has to seriously question the design of the windows from which citizens keep falling.
This is a problem leading Russian schools of architecture should be working on as a top priority.
Given the fact that many of the victims are highly educated, often with degrees from Russia’s most prestigious universities, “contributory victim stupidity” can be ruled out as a major cause of these tragic accidents.
Behind closed doors, officials are seriously investigating the possibility that Russian window design may be at fault. It is well known that Soviet and more recently Russian window design has not kept pace with the latest developments in home and office design and construction in the leading Western countries.
Soviet and Russian window design, often unchanged since the 1920’s,has been blamed for similar accidents, which increased sharply beginning in Lenin’s and Stalin’s times.
Particularly noteworthy in the present case is that the victim fell out of his window while a police raid on his apartment was underway.
Experts cite this happenstance as suggesting the desirability of a change in police protocols for raiding an apartment.
One of the:first things the police should do when entering an apartment, according to these experts, is to close the windows.
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James Rowles is a former Lecturer on Law at Harv Law School and professor of international law at other universities.
He studied the history of Nazi Germany at Stanford, and has studied and worked on human rights, judicial reform, and access to justice projects in many countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and in Afghanistan and Russia. At Harvard Law School, he taught a course on “Law, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Latin America”.
At the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS, he worked on human rights cases involving forced disappearances, executions, and torture in a number of authoritarian countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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