[oblak]

Your counter example is one guy dying from poisoning, in a country that does a lot of shroom foraging (берем гъби у гората).

The Russia rocket expert was likely killed.

[krastanov]

You are reading too much in what I said. Of course weird things are happening in an unstable dictatorship like Russia and this guy might have been assassinated for one reason or another. That does not mean it is not nice to give people context about the culture in that end of the world though.

[throw_pm23]

I think you make it sound more exotic than it is. People pick mushrooms around the world. Slightly more common in SE-Europe, a bit less so than a few decades ago. People tend to stick to the 1-2 species they know best, poisonings are extremely rare.