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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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.
Did he eat a lot of Chipotle?
Conspiracy ping.
Or the WH.
Um.
Maybe he ‘had’ several.
Is Chipotle male or female?
Or...poison?
Bush’s fault!!!
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.
Died of a stroke... doesn’t sound like a Putin hit job. Sounds more like a CIA hit (Breitbart, etc.).
Now that's funny.
The Hildabeast is senile in many ways. But she still has brainless followers.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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...
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.
Later reports say heart attack.
Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I was wondering what the Russian equivalent of Arkancide was. I think you have it.
It seems those checks to the Clinton Foundation never cleared.....
Or obamacide. This is one more poke at the bear.
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.
hmmmmm
Jessica, Jessica.
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