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Putin Associate Found Dead in DC Hotel
ABC News ^ | 11-5-2015 | Mike Levin

Posted on 11/06/2015 5:25:25 PM PST by tcrlaf

A prominent Russian millionaire with high-level ties to the Kremlin has been found dead inside a Washington hotel, a Russian official and a senior U.S. official told ABC News.

Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government who's been accused of curtailing the country’s press freedoms, had been staying at Hotel Dupont when he was found Thursday, according to officials.

It's unclear why the long-time adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Washington, but the Metropolitan Police Department is now investigating his death. On Thursday, U.S. authorities notified the Russian embassy in Washington that one of its citizens had died, and Russian officials are now working with American authorities to determine the circumstances of the death, the embassy told ABC News in a statement.

Citing an ongoing investigation, an MPD spokesman would only confirm the department is conducting a “death investigation."

Lesin is credited with creating Russia Today, the English-language news network backed by the Russian government. Now known as RT, the network “provides an alternative perspective on major global events, and acquaints an international audience with the Russian viewpoint,” according to its website.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 201511; agitprop; astroturf; bluntforcetrauma; death; dupontcircle; freedomofspeech; fruitloop; gazprom; kgb; lesin; mikhaillesin; paidrussiantrolls; patricelumumbaschool; putin; putinsbuttboys; rt; russia; russianstooge; russianstooges; russiatoday; vladtheimploder; washington
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To: flaglady47

Oh, oh, this is not going to go down well with Putin, having one of his buddies mysteriously die while in Obama’s U.S. Won’t go down well at all.


Valerie Jarrett needs to vacation in Moscow. Tomorrow would be soon enough.


21 posted on 11/06/2015 6:15:12 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased miHe's just not a good presidential candnds.)
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To: tcrlaf

Did he eat a lot of Chipotle?


22 posted on 11/06/2015 6:15:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: null and void

Conspiracy ping.


23 posted on 11/06/2015 6:18:39 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: HarleyLady27; Nachum

Or the WH.


24 posted on 11/06/2015 6:22:37 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Um.

Maybe he ‘had’ several.

Is Chipotle male or female?

Or...poison?


25 posted on 11/06/2015 6:25:02 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: combat_boots

Bush’s fault!!!


26 posted on 11/06/2015 6:28:24 PM PST by Radagast the Fool (At my signal, UNLEASH PALIN!!)
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To: PROCON

NO....
This was a hildebeast mission gone awry..got the Russian instead of one of the GOP candidates.
Hillary can’t even get her assasinations right anymore. ha.


27 posted on 11/06/2015 6:32:23 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Bush won the War in Iraq, Obozo lost the peace..and gave Iraq back to the Terrorists!)
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To: tcrlaf

Died of a stroke... doesn’t sound like a Putin hit job. Sounds more like a CIA hit (Breitbart, etc.).


28 posted on 11/06/2015 6:35:43 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
Hillary can’t even get her assasinations right anymore. ha.

Now that's funny.

The Hildabeast is senile in many ways. But she still has brainless followers.

29 posted on 11/06/2015 6:36:25 PM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: tcrlaf
putin photo:  putinfuneral.jpg
30 posted on 11/06/2015 6:39:34 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: BlackVeil; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

31 posted on 11/06/2015 6:56:34 PM PST by null and void (We are AmeriCANs. We CAN learn, and learn from history, if we choose.)
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To: tcrlaf

I bet this is investigated with the same intensity they gave to the coroner’s assistant who died of arsenic poisoning after photographing Andrew Breitbart on the slab.


32 posted on 11/06/2015 7:06:20 PM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven.)
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To: tcrlaf

Later reports say heart attack.


33 posted on 11/06/2015 7:07:34 PM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Buy gold, silver, land, guns, and ammo.)
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To: tcrlaf; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!


34 posted on 11/06/2015 7:12:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: PROCON

I was wondering what the Russian equivalent of Arkancide was. I think you have it.


35 posted on 11/06/2015 7:37:14 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: tcrlaf

It seems those checks to the Clinton Foundation never cleared.....


36 posted on 11/06/2015 7:59:01 PM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: PROCON

Or obamacide. This is one more poke at the bear.


37 posted on 11/06/2015 8:24:30 PM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: tcrlaf
Lesin had “acquired multi-million dollar assets” in Europe and the United States “during his tenure as a civil servant,” including multiple residences in Los Angeles worth $28 million.

I believe I've finally figured out why politicians of both stripes are trying to turn the US into a socialist state. It just pays a helluva lot better.

Read the tagline.

38 posted on 11/06/2015 9:17:01 PM PST by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: null and void

hmmmmm


39 posted on 11/06/2015 9:27:24 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: null and void

Jessica, Jessica.


40 posted on 11/06/2015 9:36:52 PM PST by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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