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18. Some of the odd deaths have happened in this country
Wed May 3, 2017, 02:10 PM
May 2017

Mikhail Lesin, 57
Blunt Force Injuries
Washington, D.C.
Nov. 5, 2015
Former media director of Russia energy company Gazprom and founder of RT (Russia Today TV network) was found dead in a Dupont Circle hotel in Washington, D.C., of blunt force injuries to the head.

Sergei Krivov, 63
Tumor
New York
Nov. 8, 2016
Consular duty commander for the Russian Consulate in Manhattan, found dead of apparent head injuries on consulate floor. The New York Medical Examiner concluded he died of internal bleeding due to a tumor.

Vitaly Churkin, 64
Heart attack
New York
Feb. 20, 2017
Russian ambassador to the U.N. since 2006, died at work in New York of an apparent heart attack. The U.S. State Department asked NYC medical examiner to not release autopsy results, citing diplomatic protocol.

Alex Oronov, 69
Unknown
New York
March 2, 2017
Oronov was a Ukrainian émigré businessman in New York who organized a meeting between Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen, Felix Sater and Ukrainian member of parliament Andriy Artemenko in January 2017 about a peace plan for Ukraine that would have benefited Russia. The cause of his death remains unknown.

All of the above are from: https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/suspicious-russian-deaths-sacrificial-pawns-or-coincidence/

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