US still not providing info on death of ex-Putin’s aide: Russia
Circumstances surrounding the death of an ex-aide to the Russian president are still shrouded in mystery as Washington refuses to provide Moscow with in-depth information on his death in the US after briefly announcing he died due to head injuries.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday that Moscow had “repeatedly requested information" through diplomatic channels and its embassy in Washington, but "concrete, comprehensive information that casts light on any details of what happened” has not been provided by US authorities yet.
Mikhail Lesin, 57, was found dead in his room in the Dupont Circle Hotel in the US capital on November 5 last year. His family has initially cited a heart attack as the cause of his death, but a joint statement released on Thursday by the District of Colombia’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and Metropolitan Police Department hinted that Lesin might have been killed.
The statement announced that the cause of the death was “blunt force injuries of the head.” It also referred to “blunt force injuries of the neck, torso, upper extremities and lower extremities,” as “other contributing causes” of Lesin’s demise. The official release, however, described the manner of the death as “undetermined,” and said “the incident remains an active" police investigation.
Meanwhile, Yuri Melnik, the spokesperson for the Russian embassy in Washington, said that the embassy has been in constant contact with US officials on the issue.
“We are working with all the departments. We have our diplomatic channels, our immediate partner is the US State Department, but we work with other official organizations as well,” Melnik said, adding that despite their efforts “no information has been provided at this point.”
Lesin was Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications minister from 1999 to 2004, and served as Putin’s media adviser from 2004 to 2009. He was the head of Gazprom-Media between October 2013 and January 2015.
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