Posted on 02/20/2017 12:22:23 PM PST by davikkm
Reuters reports:
Russia’s combative ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died suddenly in New York on Monday after being taken ill at work, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The ministry gave no details on the circumstances of his death but offered condolences to his relatives and said the diplomat had died one day before his 65th birthday.
It declined to comment on reports that Churkin had been taken to hospital shortly before his death.
President Vladimir Putin was “deeply upset” by the news and had greatly valued Churkin’s professionalism and diplomatic talent, Russian news agencies quoted the Kremlin as saying.
The New York Post quoted unnamed sources as saying Churkin had been rushed to a Manhattan hospital from the Russian embassy after falling ill with a cardiac condition.
Tass news agency quoted Churkin’s deputy Pyotr Ilyichev as saying: “The loss sustained by Russia is grave and irreplaceable.
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Conspicuous timing.
Very conspicuous, indeed.
Fits the anti-Russian narrative too neatly.
The media must be chomping at the bit.
someone just got unpersoned.
Has ever visited Arkansas?
it seems Russian diplomats are dropping like flies all of a sudden...
Pick your poison - Wodka or Polonium?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q-765B1I7Q&index=11&list=PLC1E42309CF338B83
“Polonium 209” by the Capitol Steps
Shades of Vyshynsky, Stalin’s mass-murdering henchman, who died in NYC in 1954 while holding the same post (Ambassador to the UN).
Mark my words, the left will blame it on Trump in a conspiracy theory.
I’m thinking sometimes a heart attack is just a heart attack. Haven’t seen any evidence to suggest otherwise, so far. Unless it was done by someone in the UN in retaliation towards Russia’s refusal to go along with the NWO.
To my wizened eye, this smells like three day old fishwrap!
(re:fishwrap...Boston Globe, New York Times, New Orleans Times/Picayune, etc.)
did some women spray him in the face?
That's true and their longevity is one of the shortest in the civilized world. On average they smoke and drink heavily. I visited Russia when I was 58. I had a Russian guide who, when I asked, said he was 39. I expressed the wish that I was 39 again. His reaction was to inform me that at 39 in Russia he was not considered young.
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