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RT Founder Mikhail Lesin’s Fishy Blunt Force ‘Suicide’

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It had been a mystery for months, but evidence of foul play has mounted in the death of Kremlin-backed media figure Mikhail Lesin.

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An ex-aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin did not die of a heart attack in a Washington, D.C., hotel room last year as was previously reported, but from “blunt force injuries of the head” as well as “the neck, torso, upper extremities, and lower extremities,” a spokesperson with the D.C....

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