Observer: A former member of Putin’s inner circle has died violently and mysteriously in our nation’s capital.
The story has all the makings of a sleek Hollywood spy thriller. A defector from the Kremlin, a man close to the top echelons of power in Russia. A man who knew too much. And who lived the global jet-set lifestyle. Fear, international intrigue and rumors of stolen fortunes end in a fashionable hotel—with a brutal death.
For years, Mikhail Lesin had it all. He went into the mass entertainment business as the Soviet Union went into terminal decline and, unlike most Russians, he profited from the Communist collapse. In the years after the fall of the USSR in 1991, Mr. Lesin built a media and advertising empire that made him a wealthy and powerful man. By the end of that decade he entered politics, as the wealthy often do, not just in Russia. MORE
Probably just a “knock-out game” victim.
It was suicide…his heart stopped beating when he put a knife into it. Police are still looking for the knife.
Most likely it was Colonel Mustard in the library with a pipe. OTOH it could have been another exercise band accident.
Much like Hillary and Bill’s list of friends, business partners and enemies meeting their demise.
“keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer”
“don’t ever go against the family again in front of strangers”
Sounds like a real life play of that movie “The jerk”.
Being real life, his family doesn’t save him, instead the mean streets cull him.
Putin must have called in one of HRC’s markers …
What, he didn’t die on a hunting vacation in Texas?
That’s called a Russian re-set button