Breaking: Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to UN, dies suddenly at 64

[BumRushDaShow]

Moscow (CNN)The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, died suddenly in New York on Monday the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

He was 64 and died one day before his 65th birthday.

"The outstanding Russian diplomat died while he was in his current working role," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "We offer our condolences to the relatives of Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin."

Matthew Rycroft, the British ambassador to the UN, called Churkin's deah the loss of a "diplomatic giant."
Developing story - more to come

CNN's Richard Roth contributed to this report.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/europe/russia-un-ambassador-vitaly-churkin-dead/index.html

The game is afoot.

[doc03]

1. Hmm Putin has taken out someone that knows too much about the

Trump Kremlin connection. What do you think?

[BumRushDaShow]

3. He must have met with the some or all of the Drumpf crew

at some point over the years.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. whoopsie!

[Achilleaze]

4. KGOP Koverup Klan on a rampage?

[Kingofalldems]

5. The Trump/Putin death count is rising daily.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. Anywhere - at any time - my what an evil web they weave..

Pootie...now why did you have to go and do that.....would you? - could you? Did you? I Just gots to know....

RESIST!!!!!!!!

[bdamomma]

7. oh oh

interesting I will need to read more about this............

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He's been in that position since 2006

If you google stories, you'll see links to sites like RT and Sputnik news come up.

[bdamomma]

37. thanks

this is just too creepy, I wouldn't put anything past this trump mob family, oh and Putin. I wonder if a autopsy is warranted.

[GliderGuider]

13. The Russian consul to Greece also died.

Jan. 9

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-09/russian-consul-athens-found-dead

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Probably ricin. Polonium would have taken longer.

[GliderGuider]

10. Any connection to this incident, I wonder?

The Strange Case Of The Russian Diplomat Who Got His Head Smashed In On Election Day

NEW YORK — 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.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. I remember seeing that story

IMHO, Putin is about to go into Ukraine big time and he's paving the way in the Security Council. I am sure that Nikki Haley has been given her marching orders.

[Achilleaze]

17. Wow - Evil is Afoot

[Dream Girl]

19. When they make the movie, that will be the opening scene

The security guard on the phone after his break. Then goes up to the roof where he is pushed to his death. Cut to tv broadcasts of election night.

[hedda_foil]

30. Farther down in the story, he is ID'd as the senior IT guy in the consulate...electronic security.

Electronic Security, not building security.

[Dream Girl]

34. I'm liking this. A bit of a plot twist.

[bdamomma]

38. wow

like the putin mob meets up with the trump mob.

[hedda_foil]

42. All that's missing is if the Russians moved their embassy to Trump Tower.

The truly mind bending part is that it's believable that it could actually happen.

[bdamomma]

43. you know

they may want the warmer weather like in Florida.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. Either a crazy coincidence or something that definitely is not.

Occam's Razor in most circumstances would say coincidence, but I wonder if Mr. Occam ever met Mr. Putin.

[mopinko]

24. or the russian mob.

or the whole nyc connection.

[Mr. Ected]

14. You say Vince Foster

I say Vitaly Churkin.

Potato. Potahto. Tomato. Tomahto.

[dalton99a]

15. Could be too many good restaurants in NYC

[GliderGuider]

16. 3 recent Russian deaths...

A Russian consulate employee in New York on Nov. 8
The Russian Consul in Greece on Jan 9
Vitaly Churkin on Feb. 20

As Ian Fleming (I think) said, "Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Don't forget the Russian Ambassador to Turkey

(NATO member)

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/world/europe/russia-ambassador-shot-ankara-turkey.html

December 19th, 2016.

[GliderGuider]

23. Yup.

Molto suspicioso...

[brush]

28. trump knows this, which is why he takes such pains not to offend Putin

It could happen to him or a family member.

Which is all the more reason we need to get his compromised ass out of the presidency — his whole Russian-affiliated crew for that matter.

HTF did our country come to this?

Never mind, don't tell, I know — Comey, Putin, vote suppression, etc.

I blame the repug party too for not vetting this clown. 16 effin candidates and none of them had sense enough to do decent oppo research on trump.

Jeb Bush had plenty of money to do it, and should have been chomping at the bit to do after the way trump kept punking him during the primaries, and little Mario too for that matter.

[hedda_foil]

32. Re Jeb's oppo operation, he DID have extremely good intel on the Trump/Putin connection.

One of his superPACs was likely the original funder of the Steele dossier. When he dropped out, it went to Hillary's operation.

[brush]

36. Maybe if he had released it he might not have had to drop out. What the hell.

[bdamomma]

39. wow, killing off these officials, and putting their moles in place? sounds all premediated doesn't

[GliderGuider]

40. Kinda looks that way.

Maybe they were thinking of the USA as Ukraine 2.0, with more subversion and psyops, but fewer tanks. They have almost succeeded.

[bdamomma]

44. it is horribly

stunning how corrupt and scandalous they are and with all these illegal events going on. Putin is just going ahead with his own agenda while we are distracted by other things. We will be incapacitated to do anything against Russia, and Putin is just sitting back watching how our country is slowing deteriorating.

[lindysalsagal]

20. Proof that this is NOT a reality TV show.

Votes. Have. Consequences. People!

[haele]

21. It could be alcoholism...Or something else relatively "natural"...

But in light of the current political events and Russian "fingerprints" found behind destabilizing nationalist efforts all over the world there's going to be a high amount of suspicion and concern as to "why now", "what's going on", and "what is being covered up"?

Haele

[BumRushDaShow]

22. See posts #16 & #18

This is the 4th incident of a diplomat related to NATO countries (U.S., Greece, Turkey).

[haele]

25. Understood. It is naturally suspicious.

It is also suspiciously natural for a Russian male. That's what's so frustrating.
If counting the previous deaths, this is still only a 70/30 chance of being a political clean-up, which is not a straightforward A=B supposition. More like a C = A + 2 or B + 1 equation.

So we still need to be cautious when connecting the dots.

Haele

[oasis]

26. Putin's far reaching tentacles. "Bugged" homes, offices and vehicles.

Was Churkin privately uttering less than flattering remarks about Vladimir?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

27. RIP!

[yodermon]

29. ... and the russian bots go wild.

Link to tweet

A pro-Trump twitter bot network gets to work sharing news of Churkin's demise, for some reason

[MineralMan]

31. Well, that's convenient for someone, I'm sure.

Hmm...

[BumRushDaShow]

33. Am expecting a ramp up of moves in Ukraine.

and all will be "quiet on the Western front" when that happens.

[Kahuna7]

35. If trumpco had contact with this Ambassador (they likely did) they're

in deep doo doo.

[DFW]

41. I guess it COULD have been from natural causes

But with all the other crap coming out of there, who's gonna believe it?