Posted on 11/12/2015 12:56:39 PM PST by elhombrelibre
How could it happen that Vladimir Putin’s press censor Mikhail Lesin, a former presidential aide, a member of the ruling United Russia party, the ideological inspiration behind the Kremlin-funded television network Russia Today, ended up dying in the heart of the U.S. capital?
It was the talk of the town in Moscow this week. Lesin’s death at a Dupont Circle hotel did not make sense in the system built on Vladimir Putin’s political principals. Lesin’s family said that he had died of a heart attack, but those who knew the dark waters of the media boss’s life were not ready to believe the first draft of that story.
Lesin and his family were tied to multimillion-dollar properties in Los Angeles and have long faced allegations of money-laundering for the Russian state and its oligarchs. Now, with the man gone, his friends and enemies threw themselves into a lively discussion of Lesin’s life, accusing the former senior Kremlin figure of destroying the news agency RIA Novosti, of attacking independent radio station Echo of Moscow, of supporting the idea of a new type of Russian journalism, wherein reporters were to believe that their job was not telling the truth but defending their country. And, of course, they accused him of stealing money.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.