Sudden Death In Putin’s Inner Circle: ‘These Two Guys Just ‘Die’ With Barely A Ripple In the Media’

The MSM has quietly and almost indiscernibly let out a sigh, either in sorrow or in relief. If sorrow, it should be because two deceased individuals such as these should not have gone quietly into that ‘good night,’ when their identities are considered. No, there should have been a mighty roar, considering who they were: two of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, both giants in Soviet and Russian affairs.
Lesin, if you recall, was found dead on November 5, 2015 in his hotel room in Washington, D. C. by the DC metro police. He was ruled dead of a ‘heart attack,’ with little complaint, investigation, or media attention either in Russia or in the U. S. He was not buried in Russia, but in the U. S., in Los Angeles.
Mikhail Y. Lesin had been a media executive and close adviser to Vladimir Putin since 2004, and awarded a medal of ‘The Order for Merit to the Fatherland,’ one of the highest civilian awards in 2006. He served two years (1976-78) in the armed forces of the USSR and then became a giant in the Russian television industry and a true oligarch and devotee to Putin. More: he became the Kremlin’s media czar in charge of censoring all independent television news sources in Russia, and was Gazprom-Media’s head from 2013 to 2015. Even before this, he ran the Soviet State Media from 1997 to 1999.
Sergun is even more impressive, being the driving force to resurrect the GRU (the Russian Intelligence Directorate, equivalent to our CIA) and reapportion the Spetsnaz teams after internal and tactical employment problems following the Russian wars in Georgia and Chechnya. His ‘quiet’ death on January 3, 2016 is another passing barely mentioned by the MSM and (once more) without much ado even in Russia.

This post was published at shtfplan on January 6th, 2016.