The Mystery of the 14 Dead Russian Officials: November 2015-August 2017
Curious patterns present perplexing questions
In the past 22 months, at least 14 Russian functionaries were murdered or unexpectedly died:
- November 5, 2015: Mikhail Lesin, 57, a senior adviser to Putin and founder of the popular counter-propaganda media company RT, was killed in Washington, DC, according to one source, by a blunt weapon (his death was originally blamed on a heart attack). “After a year-long investigation, Washington’s chief medical examiner and federal authorities released a joint statement saying he died of blunt-force trauma to his head sustained in his hotel room, induced by falls amid acute ethanol intoxication.” So, it took them one year to decide that this death was nothing more than a drunken Russian accidentally killing himself!
- May 2016: Andrei Vorobiev, 56, Russian charge d’affaires in Ukraine, died, allegedly from a stroke.
- September 2016: While driving alone in the president’s official car, Vladimir Putin’s favorite chauffeur was killed in a head-on collision with a vehicle that crossed over from the opposite side of the road. “Known as MK, the chauffeur had been employed as an official government driver for more than 40 years.” According to one source, “such an audacious attempt on the life of President Putin could ‘only be coordinated by an inside group of foreign secret service agents.’”
- November 8, 2016: Sergei Krivov, 63, head of security affairs of the Russian Consulate in New York, was found dead “with multiple face and head trauma,” according to the initial NY Police Department report. Later, a spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office called it a “natural death.”
- December 19, 2016: Andrei Karlov, Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey, 62, was assassinated by a Turkish police officer while delivering a speech at a photo exhibit in Ankara. Putin felt that this murder was “clearly a provocation aimed at undermining the improvement and normalization of Russian-Turkish relations, as well as undermining the peace process in Syria.” The Turkish president concurred: “Both Turkey and Russia have the will not to be deceived by this false flag attack.” Ankara’s Mayor linked US-based preacher and CIA front man, Fethullah Gulen “to the cold-blooded murder of Andrei Karlov, who was shot five times in the back at an art gallery.” A Russian Senator and a Putin ally said it could be ISIS, Kurdish Army, or, most likely, the secret services of a NATO country. A day later, a Deep State tabloid suggested another reason: This murder could precipitate a Russian attack on Turkey, which in turn could lead to World War III.
- December 19, 2016: Peter Polshikov, 56, a Putin aide, a member of the Ministry of Defense, and a Latin Americaspecialist, was shot dead in his Moscow apartment. The gun was found under the bathroom sink but the circumstances of the death continued to be under investigation. According to another source, Polshikov was shot dead in his apartment in what appears to be a murder staged to look as a suicide.
- December 26, 2016: Oleg Erovinkin, age 60 or 61, ex-KGB chief, was found dead in Moscow in the back of his car. Erovinkin also was an aide to former deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, who now heads state-owned petrol conglomerate Rosneft.
- December 27, 2016: Skrylnikov, a Russian diplomat, was found dead in Kazakhstan. His sudden death was attributed to a heart attack.
- January 9, 2017: Andrei Malanin, 55, Russia’s Consul to Greece, was found dead in his Athens apartment. Malanin served during a time of improving relations between Greece and Russia, following the Deep State’s deliberate impoverishment of the Greek people. A Greek police official said there was “no evidence of a break-in.” The cause of death needed further investigation, according to the AFP news agency.
- January 14, 2017, Vladimir Dedushkin, Russian Ambassador to Yemen , died in the capital Sanaa. The initial report claiming that he was shot was subsequently retracted.
- January 27, 2017: Alexander Kadakin, 67, Russia’s Ambassador to India, died in New Delhi after a brief illness.
- February 20, 2017: Vitaly Churkin. 64, Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations, died in New York City. Churkin was rushed to the hospital from his office. “He had a history of heart problems and also suffered from leukaemia.” “Chief editor of Echo Moscow radio station Alexei Venediktov said that Vitaly Churkin had diplomatic immunity, which means that his autopsy contradicted the norms of diplomacy. Venediktov, with reference to American press, also said that there was a medical report that said that Churkin had been poisoned by the food that he took at midnight.”
- March 20, 2017: Vladimir Evdokimov, 52, top official of Russia’s space agency, was found dead in his Moscow prison cell (where he was being questioned on charges of embezzlement). Investigators found two stab wounds on Evdokimov’s body, but no determination had been made of whether they were self-inflicted. (Note: I shall set aside this case, because it involves a suspected criminal sitting in a “pre-trial detention center,” accused of taking part in a $3 million fraud scheme. “He is by no means the only space industry official to have been locked up for fraud, and in fact, over the past several years, the Russian space program as a whole has been hit by scandal after scandal: Rockets have been doomed by shoddy work and efforts to build a new launch site in the Far East have been plagued by corruption.” Until now, however “no one caught up in the industry’s rampant corruption problem has died.” The most likely explanation in this case is contract killing—a punishment for cooperating with investigators. “Evdokimov’s foes feared he could tell their names to the investigation and uncover their criminal schemes.”)
- August 23, 2017. Mirgayas M. Shirinsky, 62, Russian Ambassador to Sudan, drowned while swimming in the pool of his official residence in Khartoum. The drowning, allegedly, was caused by a “serious heart seizure.” Shirinsky suffered from high blood pressure. Sudanese police have ruled out the possibility of an assassination attempt.
- August 25, 2017: Mukhmad Askhabov, 61, a Communist Party member of Chechnya’s parliament, was gunned down by unidentified attackers.
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