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Russian diplomats keep dying unexpectedly

Ivan Sekretarev / AP

Six Russian diplomats have died since November, in addition to an aide to a former deputy prime minister. All but one died on foreign soil. Some were shot, while other causes of death are unknown. Note that a few deaths have been labeled "heart attacks" or "brief illnesses." Here's what you need to know:

  1. You probably remember Russia's Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov — he was assassinated by a police officer at a photo exhibit in Ankara on December 19.
  2. 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.
  3. Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, died in New York this past week. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Russian 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.
  6. On the morning of U.S. Election Day, Russian diplomat Sergei Krivov was found unconscious at the Russian Consulate in New York and died on the scene. Initial reports said Krivov fell from the roof and had blunt force injuries, but Russian officials said he died from a heart attack. BuzzFeedreports Krivov may have been a Consular Duty Commander, which would have put him in charge of preventing sabotage or espionage.
  7. 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.
Some history: In November 2015, a senior adviser to Putin, Mikhail Lesin, who was also the founder of the media company RT, was found dead in a Washington hotel room according to the NYT. The Russian media said it was a "heart attack," but the medical examiner said it was "blunt force injuries."

Two cases that are a little clearer: In 2006, former KGB officer and whistleblower Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with radioactive polonium. Six years later, whistleblower Alexander Perepilichny died from a toxin while jogging in England, per the NYT report.
 

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Medical Examiner Contradicts NYPD: Dead Russian Diplomat Had No Head Wound After All

Medical Examiner Contradicts NYPD: Dead Russian Diplomat Had No Head Wound After All

The FBI also helped investigate the sudden death of Sergei Krivov on Election Day, despite telling BuzzFeed News it had not. No explanation was given for either discrepancy.

posted on Mar. 1, 2017, at 6:52 p.m.

Ali Watkins

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died mysteriously at the Russian Consulate in New York on Election Day, died due to internal bleeding related to a tumor, the New York City Medical Examiner says.

Though the New York City Police Department said Krivov was found dead with a head wound on the morning of November 8, Election Day in the US, the Medical Examiner’s office said it did not find evidence of a head wound on Krivov’s body, and that he died of natural causes.

“The medical examiner’s findings do not include head trauma,” Julie Bolcer, a spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s office, said an email, after BuzzFeed News asked why the head trauma wasn’t included in the office’s conclusion. “The medical examiner did not find that. That is not in the findings.”

BuzzFeed News has also learned that the FBI helped probe Krivov’s death, despite telling BuzzFeed News in February that it did not. A US Intelligence official said the bureau took part in a joint inquiry into the incident with the NYPD, and did not find Krivov’s death to be suspicious.

Pressed about the discrepancy, the FBI did not respond. The NYPD also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Initial reports said Krivov had fallen to his death from the roof of the consulate, but consulate officials quickly changed the narrative and said Krivov had a heart attack, fell, hit his head and died. Despite the medical examiner’s office leaving the case open until Tuesday, the NYPD closed the case without a formal cause of death.

That the Medical Examiner’s office didn’t note Krivov’s head trauma may be explainable, but it is odd. If police had put the presence of a head wound into the incident report, the Medical Examiner should have at the very least explained why it wasn’t an issue.

“They should [acknowledge it],” said Marq Claxton, a former NYPD detective. “As part of the autopsy, they’re going to look at the complaint report if there’s anything special, if they’re going to be looking for anything specific.”

“If it was that obvious, they should’ve noted it in their autopsy record and then dismissed it by further examination.”

Asked to directly address the discrepancy, the Medical Examiner’s office declined to specifically explain.

“For your guidance, the medical examiner’s office conducts its own independent investigation, including reviews of preliminary information from police where applicable, and arrives at a scientific and medical conclusion,” Bolcer said, referring further questions to the NYPD. “Yes, it is possible that what the medical examiner ultimately finds may differ from the preliminary police information, that is the nature of the investigative process.”

Krivov was a 63-year-old security officer at the diplomatic compound on the Upper East Side, whose responsibilities included access to the Russian mission’s top-secret crypto-gram, a device used to encode and decode secret messages sent between the consulate and Moscow. Although he was described as a Manhattan resident, there was no trace of Krivov in public records. The address NYPD had on file for him was not a residence.

The NYPD said Krivov’s death did not look suspicious, and closed the case. Two sources familiar with the matter said Krivov appeared to have a drinking problem, and said the death looked natural.

The morning of Krivov’s death was a time when Russia was at the forefront of Americans’ minds. Hours after Krivov died, Donald Trump would be elected president of the United States, an outcome that the US intelligence community would later say Moscow sought through an elaborate intelligence operation built to manipulate the US election.



Ali Watkins is a national security correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, D.C.
Contact Ali Watkins at ali.watkins@buzzfeed.com.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/02/world/europe/russia-dmitri-medvedev-aleksei-navalny.html
Kremlin Critic Says Russian Premier, Dmitri Medvedev, Built Property Empire on Graft
By IVAN NECHEPURENKOMARCH 2, 2017
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Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia at the opening of the International Military Sports Council Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in February. Nina Zotina/Sputnik, via Associated Press
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia has built a lavish empire of mansions, country estates, luxury yachts, an Italian vineyard and an 18th-century palace in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin’s most vocal critic and anticorruption crusader, Aleksei A. Navalny, said in a report published on Thursday.

In the report, Mr. Navalny used official registry records to expose what he calls a convoluted network of trustees, charity funds and offshore companies that are nominally owned and managed by associates of Mr. Medvedev, some of them classmates from law school.

The associates controlled charity funds that amassed vast sums of money donated by some of the wealthiest Russian businessmen or borrowed from state-owned banks that were used to buy the properties, the report said. The donations, Mr. Navalny said, were bribes and the network an elaborate scheme to disguise Mr. Medvedev’s ownership.

“The main element that unites it all into a system is Mr. Medvedev,” Mr. Navalny said in a short film presenting his findings. The film includes short videos of properties mentioned in the report. The videos were shot using drones that flew above the tall fences that surround the mansions.

The claims made by Mr. Navalny and his team could not be independently verified, though Mr. Navalny has established his credibility with past corruption investigations that have stood up to scrutiny.

Mr. Medvedev’s spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova, dismissed the report as propaganda.

“It is meaningless to comment on propaganda rants made by an opposition character who was convicted and who says he is already conducting some election campaign and is fighting against the government,” Ms. Timakova told Interfax, a Russian news agency.

Over the years, the government has harassed Mr. Navalny with a series of corruption charges, none of them justified, independent legal analysts have said. He was convicted of fraud in 2014 and sentenced to house arrest.

Mr. Navalny’s team provided photographs and descriptions of the various properties, including a 45,000-square-foot chalet in Sochi, Russia, the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics.

They said Mr. Medvedev also controlled through his associates a 30,000-square-foot mansion in the most prestigious gated community in the Moscow region, a property with an indoor swimming pool, an artificial pond, a huge garage and a detached house for security guards.

In a tiny village in the Kursk region in central Russia, where some of Mr. Medvedev’s ancestors lived, Mr. Medvedev has built a rural estate with formal gardens, an artificial pond and a helipad, all surrounding another enormous mansion, the report said. A small chapel was erected on the site of Mr. Medvedev’s ancestral house.

In Italy, Mr. Medvedev’s close associates, working through an offshore company registered in Cyprus, are the registered owners of a picturesque vineyard in Tuscany surrounding a 17th-century villa.

“Apartments, dachas, mansions, entertainments, everything is there, but something is missing,” Mr. Navalny says close to the end of the video. “Of course, yachts.”

Two yachts are listed as belonging to the same Cyprus company and are both named Fotiniya, the Orthodox name for Svetlana, the name of Mr. Medvedev’s wife.

Mr. Navalny says one of the yachts was photographed while moored in front of one of Mr. Medvedev’s dachas. “The system has turned so rotten that it doesn’t have any healthy parts at all,” Mr. Navalny concluded in the video.

In December, Mr. Navalny declared his intention to challenge President Vladimir V. Putin in the next presidential election, in March 2018. In February, however, a district court in the small city of Kirov pronounced him guilty of defrauding a state company. The conviction, widely dismissed as politically motivated, rendered him ineligible to run.

Mr. Navalny is the only Russian opposition politician who enjoys a broad and enthusiastic following among the public. In a 2013 run for Moscow mayor, he received 27.2 percent of the vote — just short of the threshold needed to force the Kremlin-backed candidate into a runoff.

Despite the criminal conviction, Mr. Navalny still plans to run for president. Analysts said Thursday that the release of the report underlined the depth of his presidential ambitions.

“If Mr. Navalny is playing it serious and is not joking, then the first he has to remove from the field is Mr. Medvedev,” Gleb Pavlovsky, a political analyst and former media adviser to the Kremlin, said in his Facebook account.
 

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just wanted to point out that the Keystone XL pipeline is now using imported steel instead of the american steel that Trump promised

Keystone pipeline can be made from non-US steel despite executive order, White House says

but heres the real kicker :jbhmm:

Canadian Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said on Twitter that allowing non-U.S. steel was "important for companies like Evraz Steel," a local subsidiary of Russia's Evraz PLC, which had signed on to provide 24 percent of the steel before Keystone XL's rejection by Obama.





And yet the rabbit hole goes deeper :dwillhuh:

Evraz - Wikipedia

Evraz's CEO gifted Putin a fukking yacht :gucci:

Vladimir Putin, Roman Abramovich, and the £25 million yacht
 

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