…AND YET ANOTHER DEAD RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR…
Today's blog is, unusually, about a short article, almost totally bereft of any information to blog about, that was shared by Mr. V.T. Right off the bat, I have to mention a caveat here: I don't know of any attention to this story elsewhere except the source of the article, the U.K.'s Daily Mail. Usually on a story like this, especially when I have blogged previously on the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Mr. Andrei Karlov, and its occurrence in a context of other suspicious activity including Mr. Obama's "retaliation" remarks about Russia, the death of the NATO auditor general, M. Yves Chandellon, I would receive several versions of this story from readers.
And there's one other caveat that I must mention, but that I must mention after linking the article, for it forms part of my high octane speculation:
Now, if you read this article closely, I suspect a few glaring contradictions became immediately apparent:
1) The article states that initial examination of Mr. Malanin's body and apartment showed no signs of foul play or forced entry. In other words, he died of as yet unknown "natural causes."
2) Yet, earlier in the article we're told that police homicide investigators were investigating.
But wait a minute... the article also notes that Mr. Malanin's apartment was located in a building owned by the Russian embassy. Now, this may not exactly make it sovereign Russian territory, but it does raise the prospect that Russia under normal circumstances might not be too keen on allowing the Greek police homicide investigators access to the apartment, much less allow Greek coroners access to their diplomat's body. This isn't exactly a "contradiction", but it's at the very least a curiosity.
The contradiction of course is in the statements that there's no evidence of foul play, and yet that homicide investigators are involved. While I know nothing of Greek law, it may be the case that the death of any foreign official or leader on Greek territory may require such a response, and I wouldn't be at all surprised that it did. So how is this a contradiction? Here's where that "one other caveat" comes in, because a search on RT's website turned up no stories, announcements, or even short obituary notice on the death of the consular official, Mr. Andrei Malanin. Nothing. Nadda. Nichts.
One would expect something, even if only a short announcement of Mr. Malanin's death followed by a bland statement that it is being investigated by Greek officials, perhaps in conjunction with Russian authorities, the usual boilerplate.
So my high octane speculation of the day is crawling way out onto the end of the twig, where the weight of the speculation far exceeds, by several order of magnitude, the load limit of the twig. The absence of any notice whatsoever on RT makes me suspect that there is more here, and perhaps much more here, than meets the eye. So let's turn to Sputnik:
Russian Embassy Confirms Death of Consul in Athens
Here the article is even shorter than the UK Daily Mail. In fact, it's so terse and short it makes you wonder:
Earlier in the day, Greek media reported that the 55-year-old Russian consul, Andrei Malanin, died.
According to Protothema portal, the Russian diplomat was found dead in his apartment in the center Athens. He did not come to work in the morning and did not answer to phone calls. Colleagues who came to his house jointly with police opened the door of his apartment, which was locked by a key from the inside. An investigation on the death's reason is underway. A Greek police source told journalists later that the consul died from natural causes.
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“Your comment is awaiting moderation.” Well, well. It’s been a while since I have been modded…
goshawks – January 18, 2017 at 11:22 pm.
…that perennial arrow in in the dead of night, that no one sees, yet it achieves its effect[self-censorship]
So I’m happy to see it occasionally, because it shows no self censorship.
Two thoughts. Even if this was truly only a natural death, in this time of tension it could be taken as a killing ‘just because’. A very dangerous climate for tit-for-tat, deserved or not. Also, if this actually was another killing, the baddies know that Putin will not do anything about it (at least in the short run), because he doesn’t want to p1ss-off Trump. Think of it as a ‘get out of jail free’ card…
Many in this diplomatic field are spies.
And that business is a dirty business.
When someone iced; it hard to tell which side initiated it. Innocence is not part of the territory.
We deal in lead, friend.
Vin, The Magnificent 7
Maybe he was getting in the way of some last minute plans for Cyprus….
http://www.voltairenet.org/article194876.html
I imagine the job of these diplomats is to entice these countries to leave the US reservation. Therefore, the US is attempting to squash this insurrection in a very heavy handed fashion. The message to the Greek and Turkish counterparts would be very clear– cozy up to the Russians at your own peril. How should the Russians respond then to this and the murder of the Russian musicians in the sabotaged aircraft? Well, I just heard a radio report that stated Lady GaGa is planning to repel down from the top of the astrodome in her Super Bowl performance. If I were the KGB, I would figure out some way to cut the wire during her descent. I generally don’t go in for gore nor do I entertain the violent demise of people I don’t like, but the thought of Lady GaGa falling a few hundred feet and going splat at the fifty yard line with a billion viewers watching does add a certain flare to her otherwise abysmal act as well as inject the appearance of some divine intervention against her over the top sordidness and cultural bunk. And if I know the NFL, the game would still go on after they scraped up her botoxed remains from the turf. What’s a little extra blood on the field for these hardened football players?
And the media circus that would ensue would be epic as the corporate cult left media attempts to pin the blame for Lady GaGa’s death on Putin and Russia. Imagine an international incident over the likes of this talentless and repulsive flop? I can just imagine Putin smirking with a knowing smile as he denounces the western media’s absurdity and outrageous conspiracy theories. They certainly would look foolish if they pursued this assassination conspiracy theory. Not to mention all the deplorables who would side with Putin on this one. In fact I would encourage this type of absurdist covert action by the Russians in order to make all the western media’s anti-Russian conspiracy theories look as plausible as the old “dog ate my homework” ruse used by schoolchildren the world over.
And if the KGB murder of Lady GaGa did actually lead to a shooting war with Russia and possibly WWIII, then I would be entirely convinced that we are indeed living inside a computer game and the gamers keep themselves awake with crystal meth.
I would add that this is not without precedent. I firmly believe the west tampered with Russia’s opening ceremony light show at the Sochi olympics to not only blemish the event and host Russia but also to goad Putin into publicly stating that he believed the west secretly tampered with the show, thereby making him look like foolishly conspiratorial.
Loved your concluding last paragraph
on inside computer game/crystal meth!
Question what do the Russians know and when did they find out about this latest Russian ambassador death. What are they going to do about it stay tuned for further developments.
Moussakka and Sumbacca, lethal combination..
Ok so ran this by a russian collegue. I’m told that ’cause of death’ (as in.. An investigation into the cause of death is underway..)is directly translated to причина смерти (prichina smerti if you wanna kow how to say it :)) So.. we’re not looking at ‘not agreement capable’ or some other literal translation courtesy of babelfish technology…
To put it into a metaphor, I can smell a fish somewhere, but I’m at the bottom of the ocean…. glub glub…
For the Greek guy in Brazil.. I’m sure he had dirt on the Clintons..I cant find the date he turned up in Libya, but it states in wiki that he was there from 2012 til 2016.. So if he was there in September.. Anyone remember Benghazi?
Though its more likely that he had no idea what was going on, didnt have any dirt anywhere on anyone nor nothing and simply got stabbed to death by his wife’s greedy lover. We need to wait until we have the story from his wife..