By John Vibes
It was reported late on Friday that Mikhail Lesin, the former head of media affairs for the Russian government, and the founder of Russia Today (RT), was found dead in the hotel room that he was staying at in Washington DC.
Lesin, who is said to be a close associate to Russian President Putin, was staying at the Hotel Dupont when he passed away this week, and very few details about the case have been made public. According to ABC, the Metropolitan Police Department is now investigating his death, but his family was quick to say that the cause of death was a heart attack.
Lesin’s death comes at a time where he was surrounded in controversy, especially in the United States. RT, the Russia-based news source that Lesin founded has become very controversial in the US for challenging the Western narrative of foreign policy and privacy issues. Some US politicians have suggested that RT be banned in the US for “spreading propaganda,” while others have been blatant enough to attack Lesin personally.
Some US Senators, including Roger Wicker of Mississippi, recently called for the Department of Justice to open an investigation into Lesin’s finances.
Wicker was concerned that Lesin made too much money, something that was really none of his business.
“That a Russian public servant could have amassed the considerable funds required to acquire and maintain these assets in Europe and the United States raises serious questions,” Wicker said.
Lesin was 57 years old, an age where heart attacks happen, but not extremely often.
“The president has a high appreciation for Mikhail Lesin’s massive contribution to the creation of modern Russian mass media,” the Kremlin’s press service said on Saturday.
The Russian Embassy in the US put out the following statement:
Our consular officials had an opportunity to confirm that the Russian national who passed away in DC is indeed Mikhail Lesin. Out of respect to the privacy and sensitivity of the matter we are not at liberty to disclose any other information, and would ask you to refer all further requests to his family and the law enforcement officials.
John Vibes is an author and researcher who organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference. He also has a publishing company where he offers a censorship free platform for both fiction and non-fiction writers. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page and purchase his books at his website www.JohnVibes.com.
He’s with Pres. Hugo Chavez now. RIP
I can’t believe how such people take unbelievable chances. The D.C./Alexandria/Arlington area is one of the last places for anyone who is involved in a real news/truth position or government exposure enterprise to be in. Denver and Colorado Springs get second and 3rd place behind D.C. for dangerous agency places. You could easily be targeted by 5 different agencies and over a hundred agents in these areas.
Hillary has two billion dollars let’s investigate that.
Investigate is a good step. Look at Iceland. Investigated the banks, seized them, just sold one, and every Icelandic citizen is getting a check for about $230,000.
Imagine the checks Americans would get if the likes of Rockefeller and his bankster buddies are ever investigated and have their assets seized?
That will never, never, never happen in the US. Most Americans are stupid; Americans are the most apolitical people on this planet. Your average American knows more about NFL and Snooki – ask an American about Putin and they think it’s a type of golf club.
You’re right on the money friend, I received a compilation of info about the NWO, the Bushes, Clintons, and I just couldn’t wrap my brain around it being the truth. I didn’t want to believe the John Birch Society and all this info 28-30 years ago!
There was warning about federalization of the police too, etc., etc..
Teens need to be made aware of these counter culture and freedom deviousness in order to counter their brain washing in school!
John Birch Society was spot on for their predictions. They were attacked viciously by Leftist political media for their revelations on what was to come.
‘Brave New World’ was taught in the school system without the actual meaning/consequences being told. The society [USA] was ‘Coming along nicely with the plan” according to Aldus Huxley, still living during the ‘revisited’ publication in the 1960’s, the years of LBJ’s ‘Great Society War on Poverty’.
Liberal Leftists ‘Progressive’ T.G.S.W.O.P. subsidized the ever increasing percentage of Feral relationships and their spawn of perpetual dependency addiction. Drug, [prescribed as well as illicit…Soma] culture, financed and given ‘liberal’ free time to enjoy it? by naive tax Payers, began it’s role in historic proportions across the USA.
Demonized are the rapidly dwindling vestiges of the Only historically sustainable socioeconomic system, ‘Traditional Family’ with role models, morals and Faith. The prosperous, productive US system previously dominant.
Look up the work of the late Mae Brussells, an investigative reporter – bit hard to find nowadays but well worth it. She was killed for what she revealed.
True, Americans are far more apolitical than Europeans. On the other hand, most Europeans are not fully aware of the level of enslavement behind NWO agendas and went along with the EU regional governance system. Among western nations, France is taking the lead on institutionalizing limits on free speech. Sweden is becoming a cashless society. Australia is going full on Big Brother, esp. with vaccination edicts. Americans didn’t corner the market on being clueless sheep, the dumbing down and mind control is a global problem with the US, being the heart of the NWO empire, subject to more mind control and propaganda than the rest of the world. Thirty years ago, a US insurrection would have been a disaster and major setback for TPTB, not so much now that the Middle East regional government project is much closer to completion. Human nature and brainwashing in dumbed down education systems are making us look like easily manipulated chimps, and that’s an insult to chimpanzees.
You had better check that ‘fact’. If in ‘fact’ every Icelander received $230.000 dollars. The entire population of Iceland is 321,000. Multiply those numbers and your calculator will not have enough zeros. :>
With that statement of utopian dreamland, you just made Iceland, with a total GDP of $16.7 billion and per capita total wealth of $51,000, one of the wealthiest nations in the entire world LOL After the EU bailout, they Owe multiple times their GDP in debt. Iceland, even with it’s world class geothermal and hydroelectric power built by international interests, does not produce enough trade to fuel their economy, without massive imports,
Aluminum [owned/built by Rio Tinto and other international conglomerates] being the most viable export. Fishing is next. Their system is National Socialists. As such, no matter if you contribute to the productivity … or Not, you receive free money. Many citizens prefer to Not contribute… as is a natural reaction to Free Stuff. Inflation? Fluctuating, at times it is around 20 to 25%. Free money is not Free.
It’s about $234.00 per person…according to the article I read the other day, on WND I believe.
The State of Alaska, in great political fanfare, gives each citizen anywhere from $1,000, to over $2,000 ‘Each/Every Year’ [depending on production and market revenue] in compensation for the geographical area’s dwindling Oil resources.
Interesting that the ‘media despised’, Sarah Palin, was the driving force behind the program. The money does not go far in Alaska, where costs of services and goods are very high. Best situation in Alaska [almost everywhere across the USA of today] is to have a unionized Govt job with all of the seniority/tenure benefits and full retirement, if future comfort is a priority.
321,000 x $230,000 is 73,830,000,000.00 that’s 73 billion 830Million , that doesn’t sound all that far fetched , but again I don’t know their economy , considering the terrible wealth of the Rockefellers and Rothschilds, and what they have done to this nation, they would not be in prison, they would die in a most brutal fashion, I have read somewhere the wealth of the entire planet can be divided between two principle banking families, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds , and their aggregate wealth is over 600 Trillion
Little book published during the 1960’s, ‘None Dare Call it Conspiracy’, followed another ‘None Dare’ book with less current information. Both described the interesting history of the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Bilderburgs (city builders) and other names such as Vanderbilt [Van from ‘der bilt’—city], known to this day.
Interesting in the fact that they are politically, intrinsically related. Not far fetched as considered the world population at the time. Marriages between powerful [even across international borders] royalty is more often than not, arranged. In example: Russia’s Czar Nicholas was married to British Royalty.
The society we prosper within today was built by the investments, the funds, the Insurance programs, the planned societies dependent on those people that are demonized by the political leftists, as evil, rich. Fact is they are still quite influential in all of the wealth redistribution evident in the world’s great structures, museums, hospitals and countless other socioeconomic positives we all take for granted.
I do not particularly like to think of the growing numbers of low level bureaucrats that assume the society given powers of today…. as their own.
I have experienced working a lifetime for International interests. Quite rewarding actually. Not evil, not restrictive. The ‘greedy’? rich, through their international corporations, treated myself and associates quite well. Of course were we expected to ‘Produce’ and earn ‘Profit’. ….The only historically sustainable economic system.
There is a really extensive website on the history of the Rockefellers and Rothschilds going into very great detail regarding Hitler , Stalin , etc…And their blood relations to these two banking families, the Rothschilds are the bankers for the Vatican, …anyway the website is “forbidden knowledge” “Skolnick’s Report” is another website dealing with what goes on behind the scenes hidden from public view.
Czar Nicholas was married to a minor German princess, who in turn was descended from British Royalty. I believe she was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria’s descendants married into numerous European royal families, and spread hemophilia all over the place (including to the czar’s son).
Hemophilia was not too bad, considering that syphilis was spread all over the world by other ..adventuresome …? Europeans.. :>)
You most likely know all of this, but here is a brief rundown from family dealing within Russia today.The Czar era historical artifacts, travel the world, and were on display in Santa Fe NM a few years back. Interesting, in fact of the countless photographs his media savvy wife collected. Depicting daily life across Russia, they are a well preserved record of the times.. Cameras were very new, rare at the time.
The Czar tried mightily to get the Russian economy to catch up with the rapidly developing industrial world. Convincing them to visit his ‘palaces’ [not even Mcmansions by today’s definitions] he invited countless industrialists and world leaders to Russia, to interest them in helping in the development.
The Bolsheviks were not willing to relinquish power accumulating through their masses of uneducated people. One wealthy person became notoriously involved and Russians that remembered him respected his ‘loans’ to slow the spread of starvation brought on by Communism’s bureaucratic follies, Armand Hammer convinced some influential industrialists of the word to help Russia.
Ford tractors from the USA became available for the first time. Interestingly, as if in a Communist induced time capsule, along with rubber tired [if lucky], animal drawn wagons so common, many were still maintained [due to Russia’s ingenious shade tree mechanics] and operating during the later years of stagnant Communist Russia.
The primary problem which arose from the tsarevich’s hemophilia was the introduction of Rasputin to the Imperial Family.
I greatly enjoy reading the history of czarist Russia, and I had not read most of what was in your post. Very interesting. Except that I have read that Armand Hammer was something of a Stalin apologist. I believe one article I read said he had the franchise to manufacture lead pencils in the USSR. Sounds silly, but I know I read that.
Also, Albore’s father owned a bloc of stock in Armand Hammer’s Occidential Petroleum. The Clinton/Bore administration sold the Navy’s Elk Hills petroleum reserve in California to Occidental. Can you imagine if Reagan had owned stock in, say, Phillips 66 and had sold Elk Hills to that company.
With family doing business within Russia to this day, I find everything about the formerly mystery enshrouded country interesting, as you apparently do as well.
Fascinating how their culture is controlled. Manipulative scholars of today’s academia [within the USA] are still tinkering, adjusting, fine tuning the methods that were state of the art within Russia at the time.
One of the many countless incidents of irony was the downing of 007 near Russia’s territory. The aircraft that downed the airliner had no more than a few minutes of flying time due to fuel consumption. Decisions had to be made within seconds.
The fateful decision to launch was confirmed/ordered from ground control… political.. within no more than five seconds. The Russian aircraft flight systems that brought the target into range were very obsolete vacuum tube technology.. still deadly …obviously.
Francis Gary Powers was another ‘incident’ of which a film is now released. Hope to watch and see how hollywood handles the history aspect.
Rasputin was an adept manipulator for sure. Females are often quite naive when under the spell of professional manipulative men… and women.
I enjoy reading about the logic of ‘Vlad the Impaler’ and his unorthodox [to say the least] methods [quite effective] for deterring the muslim hoards repeatedly attempting to take over his country.
Russia with it’s rich history and experience deserves far more educated media attention than the politically controlled media of the USA of today is capable of delivering. Thank you for your insight.
If you haven’t seen the movies “Nicholas and Alexandra” and “Dr. Zhivago” I imagine you’d enjoy them.
Where do you people get those wild figures?
An individual on here commented that he had read that each citizen of Iceland would receive around $230,000 in compensation, another individual offered a correction saying their economy was not strong enough for every person to receive that much money, so I simply calculated the sum of $230,000 by the population of 321,000 which came to $73.8 billion, in this country that is nothing but Icelands GDP for 2014 was about $14 billion, so the individual who offered the correction was probably right, but you never know how much these bankers steal from a nation , in a federal reserve publication from back in the 50’s which I still have a copy of, which by the way they no longer print, they state because, of the law of fractionalized lending, the loan of $285 billion of our own money that they “loaned” to us to fight WW 2 their profits were $1.5 Trillion, yeah you read that correctly just multiply by 7 for that is the fractionalized lending law, they have done this in virtually every nation around the world, they establish a “national debt” , that the government will never be allowed to pay off, they want collateral against these insane “loans” and that is how they quickly own the nation , that is how they conquer a nation , money is only a unit of measure like a gallon or kilo, but they have turned money into a commodity, that only they can “produce” I can only build so many houses,a doctor can only heal so many people,even GM can only produce so many units of all the sorts of things they manufacture, but these bankers can produce unlimited currency , which gives them the ability to buy the entire planet ,…..And that is exactly what they are doing, but these guys are communists,fascists,Nazis, and they are planning planetary population reduction, which is genocide, by any other name….
The post to which I responded had the figure of $600 trillion in it.
Go to a website called “forbidden knowledge” it contains very detailed history of the Rockefellers and Rothschilds families, another website called “Skolnick’s Report”
Also look up the research of a man named Gaylon Ross specifically regarding the Rothschilds and Rockefellers the Rothschilds real family name is Bauer, they are German
Most likely you have read in the past… One example of acceptable population reduction, within relatively recent history, was Mao’s ‘Gang of Eight’ administration and their final realization that National Socialism is economically unsustainable.
The Cultural Revolution consisted of forced marching of the non productive sector [including students of the arts, their professors, the perpetually dependency addicted] out of the core cities and into the distant remote countryside…. to provide for their own sustenance… on rural farms dependent on intense manual labor. Few ever returned.
The engineers, the scientists, students of the Hard Sciences, the actual productive sectors were spared.
If guns had been used the world would have been outraged. Forced marching of a nation’s humanity is entirely acceptable. Even viewed as needed ‘exercise’ by today’s Socialists. :>)
Bio, you’re right, and kudos for your critical reasoning. It’s a typo. I think I got infected by Alan Dershowitz writing bug. It’s $230 and you know what, they will take it!
Extended family is from Iceland and prospering out in the competitive international world. They tell about the ‘Free stuff’ conditions of the National Socialist country, and how it affects the people.
Like the USA of today, countless Icelanders, incl some members of family, only do what is absolutely necessary for basic survival. Constantly deriding the ‘Rich’ [other Productive Icelanders] and begging relatives for money …..so that they can buy the latest snowmobile.
Perpetually dependency addicted, dependent on Govt today, they never would have survived the conditions within which their ancestors prospered. When offered the high paying opportunity, they will not even ‘go to sea and fish’, like so many self sufficient Icelanders.
Fail. Anyone who uses the word “bankster” is automatically a certified nitwit.
Don’t tell us Bud, sounds like you work the retail cage at a bank.
“Bankster” is a perfect term to describe the skullduggery of the Jekyll Island gangsters. Of course, you have to explain how banks create money out of thin air through the scam of “fractional reserve banking?”
Bottom line, kill the Fed.
Nope. I’ve never worked in the banking industry.
That’s nothing – google ‘Clinton body count’ – Hillary and Bill are murderers.
How true!
Never forget Katie (the Starbucks murder), ex-aide, friend of M.Lewinsky.
OMG, didn’t hear about that one. The list never ends. Can’t even guess anymore whether the Clintons or the Bushes have longest rap sheets.
OMG, you just had to drag the Bushes into a discussion of Her Imperious Majesty.
America, home of free speech wants to ban RT – how ironic.
New Google algorithms, Bill Clinton’s proposed Ministry of Truth, “free speech zones” at the Denver DNC coronation of Obama and elsewhere, lawsuits and proposals to fine “climate change deniers”, etc. Free speech as a basic concept and right is under attack and not just in the US.
Maybe the model is China’s new social credit scoring system which is about as oppressive as a state authority can get. Russia is moving to slowly adopt an internet structure similar to China’s, having recently run a test to wall Russia off from rest of the world and two years ago Putin signed a law requiring state registration of all “bloggers”.
RT contained a lot of news I like, but they also had some programming straight from what Putin wanted us to think- and evidently that’s illegal. Right now there’s an investigation into a bunch of Chinese news stations in the US that hid their ownership and broadcast propaganda straight from the Chinese leadership. It’s outside the free speech rules. Irony is everywhere, but with the back story sometimes it makes sense.
The 9-11 terrorists are inside the Beltway in Washington DC. Nobody is safe; especially the boot lick, minions of the traitors that think they are “friends.”
It was fresh air yes, sooo many times. But when it came to Ukraine and other controversies, it was 100% the pro Russian view. It got to the point where RT news anchors left for refusing to broadcast the party line, and evidently foreign propaganda is illegal in the US.
RT is controversial, well maybe when Roseanne Barr is on, but al jazeera is a White House go to news source?
You have to take every outlet with a grain of salt. RT supports Russia like Fox News supports the GOP.
Good observation and very sage advice. In addition, Al Jazeera was funded by the Globalist Qatar ruling family and apparently organized by BBC operatives – another tepid limited hangout organization serving the global elite.
Investigate? You can’t get the truth out of anyone in D.C. Especially obama or hillary clinton. They are disgusting trailer park trash! It turns my stomach to hear either of them speak! Our people deserve better, and so do our forefathers! The main stream media shouldn’t be able to continue in their jobs after the lies told to help the left destroy America! I hate them all. This great nation that has allowed so many people achieve great things is being destroyed by those very same people!
Wrong there Lawyers!
“Trailer park trash” – what an awkward insult, especially for millionaires. It’s as if the worst thing you can think of to call someone is “poor.” It sounds like you worship the trans-national corporations that bribe the corrupt politicians to bleed our country dry for their own profit. They are the source of our problems; not the oppressed working poor, people of color, LGBT, or Obamacare. You, poor thing, are a victim of fascist propaganda. Turn off Fox News and start thinking for yourself.
I wonder what he found …….
Assisted heart failure?
Some time back, I had read that Putin was supposedly the richest man in Russia. Could it be that here we have Lesin possibly trying to catch up with Putin’s wealth but also change sides between Russia and the USA ??
Laundering Russian Mob money?,……..and before he spill the beans!,….you know the rest of the story!
Wasn’t there another quite similar Russian newsman gunned down on a bridge just down the street from the Kremlin last year? Hmmmm. Was also said to be ‘known’ by Putin. Odds are quite good that this chap was tapped – but by whom – them or us? Since we have our current Marxist, facist, communist, socialist, progressive government, what are the chances that a full and critical autopsy will be conducted? If such should be conducted, what are the chances that actual results will be published? One more thing: This chap was HERE – which might give him access to the truth about the plane lost in the Sinai. If the truth about the cause of that loss aren’t advantageous or clear that the Kremlin played no role – then the Kremlin wouldn’t want to allow any of the real truth to get out – would it?
Marxist, fascist, communist, socialist, progressive? You aren’t very bright are you? Marxism and fascism are complete polar opposites. So our government is both extreme left wing with the government of the proletariat controlling all means of production with no private property allowed and at the same time it is also the extreme right wing with militarism, nationalism, authoritarianism and with a melding of state and corporate power? One of those sounds correct. When I hear someone calling our system of government here in the U.S. marxist and fascist I think to myself…this guy has no idea what he’s talking about.
Fascism is corporatism and also reflects rule at the top of the pyramid by the international bankers – hence the title of Aaron Russo’s documentary America Freedom to Fascism. TPTB love the Hegelian dialectic as a tool to transform and control humanity, thus they had Fabian socialists infiltrate the US government in the 40s and 50s – a catalyst for the McCarthy hearings. The end goal is a form of global totalitarian statism most aplty referred to as Technocracy, explaining why after the 2008 banking crises erupted the leaders appointed to head the governments of Greece and Italy were officially referred to as “technocrats” in the mainstream media. Whatever we call these hybrid systems, they are tyrannical, driving us into a Bankster run techno-feudal system of extreme control over the masses, China being Brzezinski’s model technocracy. For more background, check out the writings and interviews done by Patrick Wood, a Trilateralist and Technocracy academic expert, and respected alt media researcher James Corbett who has at least one technocracy podcast archived.
Heart attacks happen, and they can be made to happen. The same is true of cancer, but heart attacks are faster. The weaponized heart attacks are quite effective.
It’s not possible for ordinary people to know what happened here. I don’t know. Putin knows. Obama knows. We don’t.
If any news agency should be banned it should be ours because they no longer are journalists protecting the public by exposing the gov’t illegal activities according to our Constitution. Our nightly news is so bias for the Democratic Party and so is the Supreme Court which thinks murdering our young is, you know, a right (and) okay, and, figures it is all right for anybody to change the meaning of words without the consent of the majority.. Journalism is the one thing protected by our Constitution and it should not be protected any more as it is not reporting the news, it is making up the news to reflect their own political viewpoint. So, in reality this Russian guy according to our Constitution has the right to own and run a business the way he wants to. As long as he is not aiding our enemies in war and committing treason and he is not breaking our everyday laws and been convicted by a jury of his own peers, he can pursue his “dreams” and wishes in this country.
Throne-berry Smith act of 2013. Prop a ganda is legal in the us now.
With only six companies running the media in the US, RT challenges the official agreed narrative, that can not be allowed by TPTB.
The mainstream media is all about, “who are you going to believe, us or your lying eyes?”
To herr Schmalz: Schmalz – def: piker, greasy. Now, the manner in which our government is currently conducted is progressive, collective, communistic, Marxist, liberal, faux democratic, facist and all like that.
Segue to Benito Musolini, world renown facist who was recorded saying: ‘A better definition of facism is the joining of corporatism and government.’ Guess what’s happenin’, John boy. BOTH apply – in spades!
National Socialism… NAtionalZI in German, is only able to be sustained by the close working relationship of big Government with big Business. ‘The poor’ never financially supported anyone. They are the proletariat, the force of the lowly masses so perpetually dependency addicted on big government. Bolshevik Russian term, [attributed to various sources], “Useful idiots’..
Journalism, the Arts distant from, alien to ‘Hard Science’, is one of the lowest paying professions available to graduates. Seems reasonable they would strongly advocate a govt sustained lifestyle.
Media’s voting records are somewhere above 89-93% Democrat and has been for countless many years. Their liberal leftist tenured professors, those that have never left their comfort zone, their institutions of higher learning, to experience the real world of competitive survival… Work. In other words,… they ‘done good’ :>)
WE DID NOT DO IT!!!! Just like the Hindenburg……, We Did Not Do That Either…..
One question: did he ever have any dealings with the Clintons?
Breitbart and Bishop McFadden.
Hm…I wonder if RT will begin to NOT report on things that make government look bad now, Hey…Breitbart did the same thing. Once Andrew Breitbart was killed, his site has been progressing further and further Liberal.
RT is state owned/controlled, not independent. Less than a year ago, Activist Post ran a RT clip of Abby Martin discussing 9/11 to “reveal” the “real truth” of 9/11 was the Saudis were the apparent perpetrators (rather than the international banksters and their minions). Guess the Saudis were able to set up the trade tower demolitions too. Lots of limited hangouts on RT. In 2008, I noticed one of my local public television stations was running RT programs. If you follow the PBS money trail, you’ll find it goes right to the global elite foundations.
In short, RT was great eye opening news many times but it also contained one-sided pro-Russian stories that were so obviously from the Russian government that RT anchors quit in protest. A foreign government is not allowed to influence our opinion without disclosing themselves as the source. This guy… hope it was just a heart attack, but if he was killed unjustly that sucks… like what they did to the Rolling Stone journalist.
He probably had a private falling-out with Putin, whereupon Putin performed some of his old black magic KGB tricks.
Have Putin hack Roger Wicker’s emails and Hillary’s about Lesin. There you go.. Check for Scalia’s murderer while you are at it.