{"id":24362,"date":"2026-01-08T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/russian-minister-roman-starovoit-sacked-by-putin-found-dead-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:03:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:03:00","slug":"russian-minister-roman-starovoit-sacked-by-putin-found-dead-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/russian-minister-roman-starovoit-sacked-by-putin-found-dead-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian minister Roman Starovoit sacked by Putin found dead | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KCZlgJ7LP04?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Former Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit has been found dead, apparently with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee has said.<\/p>\n<p>He was dismissed earlier on Monday by President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>No reason for Starovoit&#8217;s dismissal was given and deputy transport minister Andrei Nikitin was announced as his replacement shortly after.<\/p>\n<p>The Investigative Committee said it was working to establish the circumstances of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Russia #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KCZlgJ7LP04\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit has been found dead, apparently with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee has said. He was dismissed earlier on Monday by President Vladimir Putin. No reason for Starovoit&#8217;s dismissal was given and deputy transport minister Andrei Nikitin was announced as his replacement shortly after. The Investigative Committee said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24364,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24362\/revisions\/24364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}