339:. He held senior positions with several Russian financial institutions and completed various cross border transactions representing Russian companies and various international institutional investors. In 1995, Rapoport joined the CentreInvest Group and in 1999 was appointed managing director of CentreInvest Securities, in New York. From 2003, he was the executive director and head of the brokerage business in Moscow for CentreInvest Securities, a brokerage specializing in
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embark on a DJ career, had just opened his own club, Mir, in the downtown Moscow, and was engaged to be married. How he ended up on the window ledge, and if he intentionally let go, is uncertain. Some witnesses stated the death was the result of a dispute between
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of downtown Moscow. In the footage shot by a passerby on the street below, he is seen clinging to the window frame while a woman attempts to pull him back from inside the room, before losing his grip and plunging to his death. Tkachenko had left active management of Soho Rooms four years prior to
416:. The SEC claimed that the alleged infraction occurred while he was managing director of CentreInvest Securities in Moscow and indirectly oversaw the activities of CentreInvest Inc. in New York. Unable to serve Rapoport with due notice at his Moscow location, the SEC in 2009 entered a
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was "undetermined"; the report did not conclusively explain the circumstances leading up to his death. Because the manner of death is undetermined, the case remains technically open, but it was not being actively investigated, until or unless new information emerged.
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368:were known to party. "A table started at
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919:Securities and Exchange Commission
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288:Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
1218:Davies, Emily (17 August 2022).
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414:Securities Exchange Act of 1934
278:Rapoport was born in 1968 to a
258:, after an autopsy, listed the
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856:Jeff, Sergei (11 March 2019).
306:in 1991, in 2015 he earned an
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1319:University of Houston alumni
1091:"Rapoport Capital Home Page"
1039:(in Russian). Archived from
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465:Russia's invasion of Ukraine
178:Being a prominent socialite,
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268:Russian invasion of Ukraine
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912:"SEC order Rel. No. 60413"
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582:List of unsolved deaths
553:remained wary, telling
1033:""Закат" Альфа-Банка?"
733:"В поисках динозавров"
567:bumping someone off."
476:Andronico Luksic Craig
353:Savvinskaya Embankment
304:University of Houston
214:Alyona/Olena Rapoport
158:University of Houston
720:on 22 December 2015.
681:(1 September 2023).
312:Middlesex University
162:Middlesex University
1225:The Washington Post
1188:Davidzon, Vladislav
1012:on 23 February 2015
980:on 22 November 2012
394:Presnensky District
111:Cause of death
1309:American investors
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119:autodefenestration
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1068:The Insider
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974:Finparty.ru
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491:Bellingcat
461:virologist
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343:equities.
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154:Education
1267:Politico
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