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BREAKING: Trump Administration Caught in COVER UP of Russian Death. Terrifying.

Trump’s ties to the Russians are so obvious that you’d have to be willfully blind not to notice them, but this latest revelation is terrifying. The Trump Administration was just caught trying to COVER UP the death of a Russian official.

Churkin unexpectedly died in New York one day before his 65th birthday. The initial cause of death was cardiac arrest.

Julie Bolcer, a spokesperson for the New York Medical Examiner’s office, released the following statement:

“In order to comply with international law and protocol, the New York City Law Department has instructed the Office of Chief Medical Examiner to not publicly disclose the cause and manner of death of Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations.

Formal requests from the United States Department of State declared that “Ambassador Churkin’s diplomatic immunity survives his death. Further questions concerning this matter should be directed to the United States Department of State.”

So the State Department wants to keep Churkin’s death a secret. What is there to hide?

The initial report stated that the Russian ambassador died of a heart attack. Why not release it as such and stop all the questions and speculations?

But that is not the way the Trump White House works. In all likelihood, the State Department asked for the Medical Examiner’s office to suppress the report at the request of the Russian government.

With all the Russian officials with contacts to Trump dying, there has to be a hidden story somewhere. Was he poisoned or injected with a drug that simulated a heart attack?

Did Putin or some other Russian official order his death? And if Putin requests that Trump’s State Department keep it quiet, they would gladly oblige.

And all of this occurred after CBS reported that the New York Medical Examiner did not close its investigation into Churkin’s death. Evidently, the State Department request was to protect the Russian government.

Churkin joins a long list of Russian ambassadors, counsels, and foreign affairs personnel dying. And some, like Churkin’s death, are suspicious.

For example, Russian diplomat Sergei Krivov died at the Russian consulate in New York. Initial reports stated that he fell from the roof of the building, but he also suffered blunt force trauma.

To make this death suspicious is the fact that Russian media reported that Krivov died of a heart attack. This misreporting of the facts makes the cause of his death much more suspicious.

The Russian counsel in Athens, Greece, also died under suspicious circumstances. Andrey Malanin died in his apartment, and there was no evidence of a break-in. Malanin also lived on a heavily guarded street.

Malanin’s death is still under investigation, and, for now, there is no reason given for his death. But if it were a heart attack or by natural causes, the Russian and Greek governments would issue statements, but the investigation continues.

Why did all these Russian diplomats die? Could it be that they were opponents of Russian Dictator Putin or President Trump? Perhaps some agency will discover the reasons for these deaths and let the American people know.

And why is the State Department keeping the cause of Churkin’s death secret? Judging from the revelations of Russian involvement by the Trump administration, perhaps the cause of death was something more sinister than cardiac arrest.

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Exciting? Sure. Staged? Maybe. What a grainy video’s murky origins tell us about fake news A dramatic, grainy video made it straight past the filters of many British news organizations. Where did it come from. Nobody's sure.

[citizen0ne]

Russian Ambassador To Sudan Found Dead, Drowned In Own Pool (The death of Shirinskiy marks the 9th Russian diplomat who has died in the past year. WTF?!)

“Eight months after the Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was shot dead in broad daylight, on Wednesday yet another Russian ambassador has died. According to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Sudan, Mirgayas M. Shirinskiy, was found dead in his home in Khartoum Wednesday. 

The death of Shirinskiy marks the 9th Russian diplomat who has died in the past year. Here is a list of the more prominent recently deceased Russian diplomats:

Sergei Krivov, 63, a Russian diplomat at the Russian Consulate in New York was found dead on November 8. Krivov served as duty commander involved with security affairs, according to Russian news reports

Russia's Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov — assassinated by a police officer at a photo exhibit in Ankara on December 19.

On the same day, another diplomat, Peter Polshikov, was shot dead in his Moscow apartment. The gun was found under the bathroom sink but the circumstances of the death were under investigation. Polshikov served as a senior figure in the Latin American department of the Foreign Ministry.

Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died in New York in May. Churkin was rushed to the hospital from his office at Russia's UN mission. Initial reports said he suffered a heart attack, and the medical examiner is investigating the death, according to CBS.

Russia's Ambassador to India, Alexander Kadakin, died after a "brief illness January 27, which The Hindu said he had been suffering from for a few weeks.

Russia's Consul in Athens, Greece, Andrei Malanin, was found dead in his apartment January 9. A Greek police official said there was "no evidence of a break-in." But Malanin lived on a heavily guarded street. The cause of death needed further investigation, per an AFP report. Malanin served during a time of easing relations between Greece and Russia when Greece was increasingly critiqued by the EU and NATO.

Ex-KGB chief Oleg Erovinkin, who was suspected of helping draft the Trump dossier, was found dead in the back of his car December 26, according to The Telegraph. Erovinkin also was an aide to former deputy prime minister Igor Sechin, who now heads up state-owned Rosneft.

The top official of Russia's space agency, 56-year-old Vladimir Evdokimov, was found dead in his 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.”

- Tyler Durden - Zerohedge.com

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He was found just before 7 a.m. on Election Day, lying on the floor of the Russian Consulate on the Upper East Side.

The man was unconscious and unresponsive, with an unidentified head wound — “blunt force trauma,” in cop parlance. By the time emergency responders reached him, he was dead.

Initial reports said the nameless man had plunged to his death from the roof of the consulate. As journalists rushed to the scene, consular officials quickly changed the narrative. The anonymous man had not fallen dozens of feet from the roof of the consular building, they said, but rather had suffered a heart attack in the security office, and died.

By the time the man’s body left the morgue the next day, Donald J. Trump was president-elect of the United States. It was the culmination of a sensational, bitterly divisive political campaign that US intelligence agencies would later say Russia actively sought to manipulate and skew in Trump’s favor. With the election results, the world had turned upside down, and the death of the man at the consulate quickly faded from view.

Police officers said the death of Sergei Krivov — his name revealed here publicly for the first time — looked natural, and listed the case as closed.

But who was Krivov? And how did he really die? Three months after he was found dead, as tensions between the US and Russia reach a fever pitch, the New York City medical examiner isn’t sure he had a heart attack after all.

As far as paper trails go, dying is a messy thing, even under normal circumstances. But in the months since Krivov’s death, it’s proven nearly impossible to find out how he died, who he was, and how, if at all, federal authorities were involved in any investigation.

English-language news reports said Krivov, identified then only as a 63-year-old Russian national and Manhattan resident, was a security officer. But a November report from Sputnik, the English-language Russian media outlet, says he was a consular duty commander.

That position is no ordinary security guard. According to other public Russian-language descriptions of the duty commander position, Krivov would have been in charge of, among other things, “prevention of sabotage” and suppression of “attempts of secret intrusion” into the consulate.

In other words, it was Krivov’s job to make sure US intelligence agencies didn’t have ears in the building.

The duty commander would also have had access to the consulate’s crypto-card — the top secret codebreaker used to encrypt and decrypt messages transmitted between the consulate and other Russian channels. It was likely Krivov who helped transmit cables in and out of the heavily guarded building.

Despite being described as a Manhattan resident by the NYPD, Krivov is a phantom in public records. No one with his name, or any iteration of it, has lived in Manhattan for years, and the only other two Krivovs listed in New York state didn’t return calls asking if they knew a Sergei (in the NYPD’s files, Krivov’s name is not transliterated as “Sergei” or “Sergey” but as the less common “Cergej”). Neither were listed as related to one. An NYPD officer looking at the case file told BuzzFeed News no family was listed.

The NYPD told BuzzFeed News the responding officers were in contact with “whoever was in charge of the consulate” for information regarding Krivov.

But when BuzzFeed News went to Krivov’s address, listed in the NYPD’s files, at 11 E. 90th St., it wasn’t a residence. It’s a Smithsonian-owned office building for its neighboring Cooper Hewitt design museum. It’s located a block behind the Russian Consulate, which is at 9 E. 91st St. One of the consulate’s public entrances is 11 E. 91st St.

Asked about the discrepancy, the NYPD insisted that 11 E. 90th St. was the address they had been given for Krivov, apparently by Russian consular officials.

“No one is living here — this is where my desk is right now,” a Smithsonian employee at the address said when BuzzFeed News called.

It’s unclear how thoroughly or for how long the NYPD investigated Krivov’s death. Multiple officials declined to offer any details about the investigation. Several officers told BuzzFeed News the case is listed as “closed.”

“The narrative of the story is kind of vague, it’s not saying much,” one officer said, scanning the incident report with BuzzFeed News on the phone. “With all cases like this, it is investigated by the detective squad,” he said. “For some reason it was closed out.”

A separate officer said the case was listed as “no criminology suspected, natural causes.”

The medical examiner’s office, though, says their investigation of Krivov’s death remains open.

“The cause and manner of death are pending further studies,” said Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the office. “There are no results to share yet.”

After BuzzFeed News published this story, the Medical Examiner’s office said that, while it did continue investigating the cause of death, the office had determined Krivov died naturally.

“This is a natural death,” Bolcer said. “We are doing advanced studies to characterize the details of the underlying disease.”

Further, the office said it is not unusual for the NYPD to close the case despite the lack of a clear cause of death, since the office had said the death was not suspicious. Toxicology tests were completed, the office continued, and the results were not going to be related to the death.

But others who spoke with BuzzFeed News said his disconnect between the medical examiner’s office and the NYPD is not normal. In standard practice, a death investigation would not be formally closed by police officers until the medical examiner had reached a determination on the death.

“It’s open until you can get a cause of death….there has to be a complete circuit with a case,” said Marq Claxton, a former NYPD investigator. “That case is going to stay open until there’s a final determination, it could be a homicide, it could be something, it could be accidental or whatever.”

A separate medical examiner official said Krivov’s body had been released the day after his death, but declined to say to whom the body was released. That the medical examiner no longer has the body, but testing continues, suggests toxicology screening of tissue or blood samples.

It’s not necessarily uncommon for toxicology tests to take weeks or even months to come back. The medical examiner’s office would not specify the kind of further testing being done.

None of the five major funeral chapels or funeral homes in upper Manhattan knew of any recently deceased person named Krivov. The New York City Health Department declined BuzzFeed News’ request to search for records related to Krivov’s death, saying that by standard practices, any search had to be requested by a family member. The city’s burial desk, which tracks documentation from funeral homes, said it only files paperwork and doesn’t have a searchable database.

The NYPD denied BuzzFeed News’ request for the incident report, saying the request did not contain enough details, including the date, precinct, and location of Krivov’s death, or the incident number. BuzzFeed News’ request in fact included all of that information. A separate denial said the incident report “is not a public record and can only be obtained through due process of law (Court Ordered Subpoena).”

According to experts and former police officers, incident reports are not generally withheld by the NYPD.

“The incident report, after an investigation is closed, typically that is releasable,” said Michael Morisy, the founder of MuckRock, a nonprofit organization dedicated to government transparency and records laws. “It’s really weird that they would categorically state that was rejected…incident reports are not broadly exempt from public records law.”

In a last-ditch effort to find where Krivov’s body may have been taken, BuzzFeed News called Aeroflot airlines, the only major carrier with direct flights between New York and Moscow. Aeroflot would not say whether it had flown a body from New York to Russia in the days following Nov. 8. Information about body transports, it said, was classified and could only be released by a government entity.

As police made their way to the consulate that Election Day morning, Americans’ interest in Moscow had reached a fever pitch of Cold War–era proportions, fueled by a near-constant barrage of reports detailing a wide-ranging Russian intelligence operation that the US intelligence community says was designed to undermine the US election.

It stands to reason that Krivov, who was nearing the upper end of the mortality curve for Russian men, may have died a completely natural death, and that much of the hand-wringing over the incident is due to bureaucratic red tape rather than suspicious circumstances.

But given the unique circumstances — and a backdrop of plummeting US–Russia relations — the lack of information has done little to quell theories. The more questions that were asked about Krivov, the less people wanted to talk.

“No one seems to want to discuss this,” one law enforcement source said, after reaching out to other law enforcement officials to see what they had heard about the case.

In the hours following Krivov’s death, the NYPD had said it would identify him following notification of his family. When BuzzFeed News asked for his identity months later, police immediately said the request would have to go to through the US State Department.

The State Department, after being initially responsive, abruptly told BuzzFeed News it wouldn’t help, and said the information would have to come from the Russian Consulate.

“I’m not sure why they would or would not want to share this,” one State Department official said in a follow-up phone call, referring to the NYPD and the State Department. A New York police officer eventually gave BuzzFeed News Krivov’s name.

The incident — and the lack of information surrounding it — has raised eyebrows in Washington.

Two sources to whom BuzzFeed News spoke, who requested anonymity to discuss the probe, said Krivov appeared to be a heavy drinker, which law enforcement concluded led to his natural death.

“I don’t think there’s anything there,” one US intelligence official said.

The State Department also refused to say whether Krivov was registered as a foreign agent, how long he had been in the US, what his immigration status was, and whether they had any contact with the Russian mission regarding his death.

When asked about the incident, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: “Are you serious?” She continued: “He had heart problems, he had heart attacks. It’s weird that your outlet is interested in this.”

“The employee of the Consulate General of Russia Sergei Krivov passed away on November 8, 2016,” the consulate told BuzzFeed News. “An American doctor that was admitted to the Consulate General stated without a doubt that the death was by natural reasons. Medical examiners are currently establishing the cause of his death, but it is believed that the man suffered a heart attack.”

The FBI said it was not involved in investigating Krivov’s death. It declined to comment further and deferred to the NYPD.

The NYPD did not give BuzzFeed News an official comment on the investigation. BuzzFeed News spoke with the NYPD several times for this story, including with the precinct involved in the incident and the NYPD’s public affairs office.

Krivov’s place of employment — a palatial stone compound in Manhattan’s posh Upper East Side — has long been one of the premiere spy hotspots in the decades-old espionage war between the US and Moscow. Where many aficionados would understandably expect Washington, DC, to be prime real estate for cloak-and-dagger theater, New York City is oft-trodden territory, not least for its hosting of the United Nations.

It is unknown whether Krivov worked with Russian or US intelligence agencies. His work may not have even put him near any intelligence operations that were being run out of the consulate.

According to FBI court documents from 2015, the foreign arm of the Russian intelligence service, the SVR, likely keeps a secure office space inside the Manhattan consulate where Krivov worked.

In criminal documents filed against Evgeny Buryakov, Igor Sporyshev, and Victor Podobny — three undercover Russian foreign intelligence agents working in New York City — the bureau described “a secure office in Manhattan used by SVR agents to send and receive intelligence reports and assignments from Moscow (the ‘SVR NY Office’).”

The criminal complaint does not say specifically that the “SVR NY Office” is in the Manhattan consulate, but the document does say it is “located within an office maintained by the Russian Federation in New York, New York.”

It’s an open secret, US intelligence officials say, that the consulate is a staging ground for Russian intelligence operations. It’s also a coveted target for US agents. And its importance, officials say, has been underscored as US intelligence agencies try to get their arms around the Russians’ sweeping operation to manipulate the US election.

“That’s always a target,” the US intelligence official said of the Manhattan consulate.

In an unprecedented report issued in early January, on the eve of Trump’s inauguration, the intelligence community writ large detailed the concerted Russian effort to manipulate and undermine the US election. Key to the intelligence community assessment were a multitude of intelligence channels, including signals intelligence — or SIGINT — like intercepted electronic communications or IP addresses. The specifics of where that SIGINT came from, and what it consisted of, remain secret.

BuzzFeed News has filed a FOIA request with the NYPD for the police report on Krivov’s death, and any related paperwork. That request was received, but a determination has not yet been made as to whether the department will provide them.

Maybe those documents will provide insight into a death that, for now, remains a mystery. Nov. 8 began with his death, and ended with one of the most contentious political upsets in history. After that, Sergei Krivov simply vanished.

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I think this, and the other arrests in the Russian intelligence agency, are the result of donald telling putin about russians who were secretly working with US intelligence.

[nancy-astorga]

Russia is reportedly behind a disturbing number of assassinations outside its borders

Since 2003, more than two dozen murders or mysterious deaths in multiple countries seem to trace back to Moscow.

But no one seems to be doing much about it.

At least 33 people in the UK, US, Ukraine, Greece and India have been murdered or died mysteriously in the last 14 years, according to recent reports by BuzzFeed News and USA Today.

Last week, BuzzFeed News released the first two parts of a two-year investigation detailing how US spy agencies gave the British government, upon its request, evidence linking the murders or deaths of 14 Russians and Brits in the UK to the Kremlin, the FSB — Russia’s security agency — or the Russian mafia, which sometimes works with the government. But the British government has ruled out foul play in each case.

The report was based on a large volume of documents, phone records and secret recordings, as well as interviews with American, British and French intelligence and law enforcement officials.

In early May, USA Today also reported that “38 prominent Russians” had been murdered or died suspiciously since 2014. Nineteen of the incidents happened outside of Russia: 3 in the US (2 in New York and 1 in Washington DC), 1 in Greece, 1 in India, 1 in Kazakhstan, and 12 in Ukraine. 

USA Today named three other victims, but could not determine the locations of the incidents.

On June 1, a Chechen assassin posing as a French journalist also tried to kill a married couple, Amina Okuyeva and Adam Osmayev, in Kiev. The Kremlin had accused the couple, whom later fought against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, of trying to assassinate Putin in 2012.

When the Chechen assassin, Artur Denisultanov-Kurmakayev, was interviewing the couple in a car, he pulled out a gun and shot Osmayev. Okuyeva then pulled out a gun and shot the assassin four times. The assassin and Osmayev both survived, and the Ukrainian government has accused Russia of ordering the hit. 

The 14 victims BuzzFeed News has revealed had all gotten in the way or run afoul of powerful Russians. They were either stabbed, killed in mysterious crashes, hanged, driven to suicide after repeated threats against their lives, or poisoned. 

One victim, Alexander Litvinenko, a whistleblower, had traces of radioactive polonium 210 in his system, a substance only made in Russia, BuzzFeed News said. 

Even the scientist who found the trail of polonium all over London, Matthew Puncher, was eventually found stabbed to death, BuzzFeed News said. 

Scotland Yard’s former counter-terror commander, Richard Walton, told BuzzFeed News that Russia is skilled at “disguising murder” by using biological or chemical agents that leave no trace. 

But what all these deaths have in common is that the British government has done nothing, ruling out foul play in all cases, according to BuzzFeed News.

That’s because the British government is scared of any political, cyberwarfare or traditional warfare retaliation by the Russians, according to 17 US and British intelligence officials who spoke with BuzzFeed. They also have the incentive to keep Russian oligarch money in their banks. 

The Washington, D.C. Police Department did not respond to request for comment on any ongoing investigation into the death of Mikhail Lesin, the founder of Russia Today and former Gazprom executive who was found dead in his D.C. hotel with blunt force head injuries. 

The New York Police Department declined to comment to Business Insider about the murder of Sergei Krivov, saying information could only be released via a Freedom of Information Act request. The NYPD pointed Business Insider to the United Nations when asked about the death of Vitaly Churkin, the former Russian diplomat to the UN, who died of an apparent heart attack.

The UN said to contact the Russian government. The Russian Embassy in D.C. did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

One glaring difference between the deaths in the UK or US, and those in Ukraine, are the methods used. Almost every victim in Ukraine was shot, tortured or killed in a bombing, USA Today reported. 

The possible reasons for this are many, according to Stratfor Chief Security Officer Fred Burton.

Russian mobsters, who only know violent methods, may have been contracted, or Russia could be trying to send signals to Ukraine. It could also be because Russia is trying to evade the US and UK’s more sophisticated intelligence communities. 

As for recourse, the US and UK could make the Russian ambassadors persona non grata, ramp up surveillance of known Russian agents, or even put out Interpol warrants out on suspected assassins, Burton said. 

“But with that could come foreign policy blowback,” Burton told Business Insider. “I’m not optimistic.”

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Russia is reportedly behind a disturbing number of assassinations outside its borders

Since 2003, more than two dozen murders or mysterious deaths in multiple countries seem to trace back to Moscow.

But no one seems to be doing much about it.

At least 33 people in the UK, US, Ukraine, Greece and India have been murdered or died mysteriously in the last 14 years, according to recent reports by BuzzFeed News and USA Today.

Last week, BuzzFeed News released the first two parts of a two-year investigation detailing how US spy agencies gave the British government, upon its request, evidence linking the murders or deaths of 14 Russians and Brits in the UK to the Kremlin, the FSB — Russia's security agency — or the Russian mafia, which sometimes works with the government. But the British government has ruled out foul play in each case.

The report was based on a large volume of documents, phone records and secret recordings, as well as interviews with American, British and French intelligence and law enforcement officials.

In early May, USA Today also reported that "38 prominent Russians" had been murdered or died suspiciously since 2014. Nineteen of the incidents happened outside of Russia: 3 in the US (2 in New York and 1 in Washington DC), 1 in Greece, 1 in India, 1 in Kazakhstan, and 12 in Ukraine. 

USA Today named three other victims, but could not determine the locations of the incidents.

On June 1, a Chechen assassin posing as a French journalist also tried to kill a married couple, Amina Okuyeva and Adam Osmayev, in Kiev. The Kremlin had accused the couple, whom later fought against Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, of trying to assassinate Putin in 2012.

When the Chechen assassin, Artur Denisultanov-Kurmakayev, was interviewing the couple in a car, he pulled out a gun and shot Osmayev. Okuyeva then pulled out a gun and shot the assassin four times. The assassin and Osmayev both survived, and the Ukrainian government has accused Russia of ordering the hit. 

The 14 victims BuzzFeed News has revealed had all gotten in the way or run afoul of powerful Russians. They were either stabbed, killed in mysterious crashes, hanged, driven to suicide after repeated threats against their lives, or poisoned. 

One victim, Alexander Litvinenko, a whistleblower, had traces of radioactive polonium 210 in his system, a substance only made in Russia, BuzzFeed News said. 

Even the scientist who found the trail of polonium all over London, Matthew Puncher, was eventually found stabbed to death, BuzzFeed News said. 

Scotland Yard's former counter-terror commander, Richard Walton, told BuzzFeed News that Russia is skilled at "disguising murder" by using biological or chemical agents that leave no trace. 

But what all these deaths have in common is that the British government has done nothing, ruling out foul play in all cases, according to BuzzFeed News.

That's because the British government is scared of any political, cyberwarfare or traditional warfare retaliation by the Russians, according to 17 US and British intelligence officials who spoke with BuzzFeed. They also have the incentive to keep Russian oligarch money in their banks. 

The Washington, D.C. Police Department did not respond to request for comment on any ongoing investigation into the death of Mikhail Lesin, the founder of Russia Today and former Gazprom executive who was found dead in his D.C. hotel with blunt force head injuries. 

The New York Police Department declined to comment to Business Insider about the murder of Sergei Krivov, saying information could only be released via a Freedom of Information Act request. The NYPD pointed Business Insider to the United Nations when asked about the death of Vitaly Churkin, the former Russian diplomat to the UN, who died of an apparent heart attack.

The UN said to contact the Russian government. The Russian Embassy in D.C. did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 

One glaring difference between the deaths in the UK or US, and those in Ukraine, are the methods used. Almost every victim in Ukraine was shot, tortured or killed in a bombing, USA Today reported. 

The possible reasons for this are many, according to Stratfor Chief Security Officer Fred Burton.

Russian mobsters, who only know violent methods, may have been contracted, or Russia could be trying to send signals to Ukraine. It could also be because Russia is trying to evade the US and UK's more sophisticated intelligence communities. 

As for recourse, the US and UK could make the Russian ambassadors persona non grata, ramp up surveillance of known Russian agents, or even put out Interpol warrants out on suspected assassins, Burton said. 

"But with that could come foreign policy blowback," Burton told Business Insider. "I'm not optimistic."

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First is the perplexing case of Sergei Krivov — disputably a consular duty commander at the Russian Consulate in Manhattan — died on November 8, Election Day, under perhaps the most problematic circumstances of any of the deaths listed.

Found unconscious and unresponsive on the floor inside the consulate, Krivov suffered blunt force trauma to the head — initially reported as received in a fall from the roof of the building — and passed away before emergency services could reach the scene.

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YOUR DAILY DYSTOPIA | 2017.02.15

YOUR DAILY DYSTOPIA | 2017.02.15

Today, Buzzfeed reported that a Russian Diplomat, Sergei Krivov, died under mysterious circumstances in New York City on Election day in 2016, and the NYPD has apparently closed the case. When asked for a comment, Трамп spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway burst into flames then cackled. ——— Wow, things are going crazy! Did you hear the Breaking news from the Associated Press? Today, the Senate voted to…

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Another Dead Russian Official Was Just Found Stabbed To Death In His Prison Cell

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Another Russian official has been found dead, bringing the total to seven mysterious deaths in the past 6 months.

An official of Russia’s space agency Vladimir Evdokimov was found dead in a prison where he was being held on charges of embezzlement AP reported.

Evdokimov, 56, was the executive director for quality control at Roscosmos, the country’s spaceflight and research agency.

“Eleven people in Evdokimov’s cell are being questioned,” Yulia Ivanova a spokeswoman for Russia’s investigative Committee said.

Police found two stab wounds on Evdokimov’s body, but there was no determination made of whether they were self-inflicted or he was murdered.

Evdokimov was jailed in December on charges of embezzling $3.1 million from the MiG aerospace company.

This marks the seventh mysterious death of a high-level Russian official.

This comes as the U.S. State Department has refused to release the cause of death of Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin who allegedly died of “cardiac arrest.”

Evdokimov death follows the assassination of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, the death of another Russian diplomat, Russian Foreign Minister Peter Polshikov, found dead in his apartment shot in the head, the death of Russian Greece diplomat Andrey Malanin found in his bathroom, the death of Russia’s ambassador to India, Alexander Kadakin, who died at a hospital in India on Jan. 26 following a brief unspecified illness. The under reported death of Oleg Erovinkin, a former general in the KGB who was found dead in the back of his car in Moscow who was also linked to the Trump dossier report allegedly made by an ex-Mi6 agent Christopher Steele and finally the death of Churkin.

[RELATED:Media Silent As Six Top Russian Officials Die Mysteriously In Last 60 Days]

If we go back further then the last 6 months and look at the last 2 years there are additional suspicious deaths.

Sergei Krivov was found on election day in November of 2016, found just before 7 a.m. lying on the floor of the Russian Consulate in New York. He was unconscious with an unidentified head wound brought on by ‘blunt force trauma.’ By the time emergency responders arrived, Krivov was dead.

Initial reports were that Krivov plunged to his death from the roof of the Consulate. That story quickly changed to ‘he suffered a heart attack,’ matching a similar narrative that was claimed for the death of Putin aide Mikhail Lesin in 2015.

A few months prior in September 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s driver was killed  in a freak car accident while driving the Russian President’s official black BMW.

If you include these three additional deaths, that’s a total of ten Russian officials that have died over the past 2 years. There could be even more than that.

Now, is Evdokimov death connected to the other six? Probably not, but who knows? In this case, the man had a history of massive fraud and was probably wanted dead. Still, his death reminds us all of the other nine suspicious deaths in the last two years.

We Are Change will continue to cover these mysterious deaths of Russian officials if more happen, so stay tuned.

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BREAKING: Several Important Officials “DROP DEAD” After Major Trump Revelations

It can be very dangerous to your health to be an enemy of Vladimir Putin, or as it turns out, Donald Trump. After a new series scandals surrounding Trump’s ties to Russia, several important diplomats all mysteriously ended up dead.

The deaths range from the United States to India, and many are suspicious in nature. Obviously, it is not a good idea for a Russian diplomat to oppose Putin.

The deceased Russians also include former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov. His assassination occurred in Moscow — he was shot four times in the back by an assassin in a passing car.

Nemtsov was an advocate of democracy in Russia and a political opponent of Putin. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron said the following about the assassination: “His life was dedicated to speaking up tirelessly for the Russian people, to demanding their right to democracy and liberty under the rule of law, and to put an end to corruption. He did so without fear, and never gave in to intimidation.”

And the murders continued. Since November 2016, six diplomats and Nemtsov died, some under suspicious circumstances. Included in the carnage was the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin.

Initial reports stated that Churkin died of a heart attack. But according to CBS, the medical examiner in New York continues to investigate the death.

The deaths also include foreign ambassadors. An assassin killed Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov, at a photo exhibit in Ankara on December 19. The assassin was a Turkish police officer.

The Russian consul in Athens, Greece, Andrey Malanin, died in his apartment on January 9, 2017. Greek police said there was no evidence of a break-in, and Malanin lived on a heavily guarded street.

Malanin served in Greece at a time of easing relations between Greece and Russia. His death is still under investigation.

On the morning of the United States’ election day, Russian diplomat Sergei Krivov died at the Russian consulate in New York. Initial reports said that Krivov died of blunt force trauma and fell from the roof. Russian authorities said that he died of a heart attack.

Buzzfeed said that Krivov “may have been a consular duty commander, which would have put him in charge of preventing sabotage or espionage.” His death is very suspicious, and Russia’s misreporting of the facts makes one wonder if the government ordered it.

And ex-KGB Chief Oleg Erovinkin, who purportedly helped draft the Trump dossier, died in the back of his car on December 26. Erovinkin also was an aide to former Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, who now heads up state-owned Rosneft.

The Russian Ambassador to India reportedly died of a “brief illness.” Indian authorities verified that he died of the illness, but considering what happened to all the others, who really knows.

And Petr Polshikov, who served as a senior figure in the Latin American department of the Foreign Ministry, was found dead in his apartment in Moscow. His death is still under investigation.

Included in these murders is Seth Rich, a murdered DNC staffer. Officials called for an investigation into his murder after a lawyer and lobbyist stated that Russia was behind it.

It is now a death sentence to oppose Russian Prime Minister Putin and Donald Trump. After Trump’s statement that the United States has as many murderers in the country as Russia, the future of American resistance looks even bleaker.

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Seven Russian diplomats have died unexpectedly since the start of November, with “brief illness” and “heart failure” being the usual causes of death.

The surprising deaths have appeared in five different countries on three continents. While the initial reports often differ, the medical files tend to end up looking very similar.

Conspiracy theorists are trying to find links between the victims and patterns that suggest the deaths were triggered by humans instead of natural causes.

Sergei Krivov, 63, died after suffering a head injury at the Russian Consulate in New York on America’s Election Day, Nov. 8. A New York City Medical Examiner said Krivov died from internal bleeding related to a tumor, according to Buzzfeed.

Russia’s Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot at an Ankara art gallery Dec. 19. The gunman was reportedly a member of Turkey’s special operations police force and he shouted Islamic slurs following the assassination. (RELATED: A Photographer Caught The Exact Moment A Terrorist Gunned Down A Russian Ambassador)

Petr Polshikov, a high-ranking Russian diplomat, was shot dead in his Moscow apartment just hours later. (RELATED: Top Russian Diplomat Shot Dead In Moscow)

Oleg Erovinkin, a former KGB general linked to the unverified dossier on President Donald Trump, was found dead in the back of his car Dec. 26 under mysterious circumstances. The cause of death has been established as a heart attack, but media speculation suggest foul play. (RELATED: Ex-KGB Chief Linked To Trump Dossier Found Dead)

Erovinkin was an aide to Igor Sechin, a former deputy prime minister and current head of the state-owned oil company Rosneft, which is repeatedly named in the dossier. Christopher Steele, the former MI6 spy who compiled the dossier, claimed much of the information came from a source close to Sechin.

Andrei Malanin, the Russian consul in Athens, Greece, was discovered dead on his bathroom floor Jan. 9 after failing to show up for work. Greek police said Malanin appeared to have died of natural causes. There were no signs of a “a break-in” at the apartment but police launched an investigation into the cause of death.

Alexander Kadakin, the Russian ambassador to India, passed away Jan. 26 in New Delhi due to heart failure after a “brief illness.”

Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, died from suspected heart failure Feb. 20 in New York City. Churkin fell ill with a cardiac condition at work and died shortly after arriving at the hospital. A federal law enforcement told Reuters there was nothing unusual about Churkin’s death. (RELATED: Russia’s Ambassador To UN Dies Suddenly)

While some of the deaths have many similarities, none of the foreign countries where the diplomats died from heart attacks have reported evidence of foul play.

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by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline: All the way back on election day in November of 2016, Sergei Krivov was found just before 7 a.m. lying on the floor of the Russian Consulate in New York. Found unconscious with an unindentified head wound brought on by ‘blunt force trauma’, by the time

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