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Can’t Come Up With a Believable Lie? More Woes for Russia: Died of Heart Attack From Blunt Force Trauma. Yeah Right (Video)
3-14-16
The mystery around the death of a former aide to Russia’s president Vladimir Putin is causing tension between Russia and the US. Last fall, Mikhail Lesin reportedly died of a heart attack at a hotel in Washington, D.C. Last week, the coroner’s report said it was actually blunt force trauma–to his head, neck, shoulders, arms, legs, and upper and lower torso.
In a strange twist, somebody used Lesin’s passport to fly out of the United States in December–40 days after he died!
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Mikhail Lesin death: Vladimir Putin’s propaganda chief died from ‘blunt force’ – not heart attack as was suggested
When Vladimir Putin’s former propaganda chief was found dead five months ago, in a hotel room just a few streets from the White House, any speculation about the manner of his demise was swiftly quashed. Russia Today, the state-funded news channel that Mikhail Lesin had helped to create on behalf of the Kremlin, quoted an unnamed family member as claiming he had passed away from a heart attack after a lengthy illness.
However, authorities in the US capital told a different story. An autopsy has revealed that Mr Lesin, 57, died not from natural causes, but from blunt force injuries to his head. According to the office of Washington DC’s chief medical examiner, Mr Lesin, whose body was found on 5 November 2015 at the city’s five-star Dupont Circle hotel, had also suffered extensive trauma to his neck, arms, legs and torso.
Although police have not declared Mr Lesin’s death a criminal act, the circumstances of his death are classified as “undetermined”. Mr Lesin’s case is still under investigation, said the DC police department’s chief spokesperson, Dustin Sternbeck. “We are not willing to close off anything at this point,” he added. According to the medical examiner’s chief of staff, Beverly Fields, Mr Lesin’s was among the 10 per cent of cases that take more than the 90 days normally required for the coroner to release their report, falling into the “more complex” category.
Following the revelations from the US authorities, Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova complained on Facebook that numerous calls from the Russian embassy in Washington enquiring into the circumstances of Mr Lesin’s death had not been answered.
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“We are waiting for Washington to give us the relevant information and official data about the investigation,” she wrote. “If the information published… in the media is true, the Russian authorities will send their American counterparts a request for international legal assistance.”
That call for information was echoed by the spokesman for President Putin, Dmitry Peskov, who said that Russia “haven’t received any detailed information via formal channels of communication that [we use] for such cases”.
In a world where Kremlin turncoats often meet sticky ends, the news of Mr Lesin’s fate has fed conspiracy theories among Mr Putin’s critics as to how he died and who, if anybody, might have wanted him dead. Though he and family members had business interests in the US, his reasons for being in Washington are unclear. Mr Lesin is thought to have been under scrutiny from the FBI and the US Department of Justice for alleged money laundering and corruption. Some have suggested he may have been planning to cut deal with the FBI.
But Mr Lesin was no enemy to the Russian state. Credited for setting up Russia Today, the nation’s first state-funded English-language news channel, he was known as one the country’s most influential media operators and a long-time confidant to President Putin. Mr Lesin, who rode into media management on a wave of successes from his previous career in advertising, was responsible for conceiving the ad campaign that helped Boris Yeltsin’s re-election in 1996. READ MORE
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