Murdered: Coroner Finds RT Founder and Top Putin Aide Died of Blunt Force Trauma to the Head

Lesin with Putin

Last November Mikhail Lesin, former press aide to President Vladimir Putin and the founder of RT, was found dead in a Washington D.C. hotel room. The chief medical examiner there has concluded that Lesin died of “blunt force injuries to the head” but did not specify the cause of death in the report. Lesin was also found to have sustained injuries to his limbs, torso, and neck.

The medical examiner did not add anything about whether or not a crime was committed here, but it doesn’t exactly take Sherlock Holmes to figure this out. Either the guy bashed his own brains in, or someone else did it for him. Which one is more likely?

What’s really weird about this is how the media is trying to spin it like it could be anything other than murder. Vice reported, “The injuries seem to indicate Lesin may have been murdered…” Really? “Seem to indicate?” Did he bash his own brains in? Not exactly the way most people (or, really, anyone) commits suicide, is it?

Funny how these kinds of murders never seem to get “solved” either…