Oligarch Down: Washington, DC

       Another Putinista is down and out.   It was a rough weekend in DC.  Mikhail Lesin, age 59, was found DOA  in a posh hotel in Washington's Dupont Circle neighborhood, in the vicinity of Embassy Row.  Initial reports indicate he may have had a cardiac infarction.   Given his age, he fit the perfect demographic for such an event.  This is a very common occurrence here in the US and other Western nations.   However, given the subject person, one must consider outside influence as a possibility.
      Let's look at Mr. Lesin's resume:  associate of Vladimir Putin;  owner of millions of dollars of real estate in Los Angeles, California; subject of a US Senate inquiry by Sen. Roger Wicker(R) of Mississippi; head of Gazprom Media, the largest media holding company 2013(resigned in 2014); helped establish Russya Today aka RT, the propaganda arm of Putin's Kremlin Krony Klub; designer of the Russyan government's takeover of independent media; and, of course, consumer of copious amounts of state-supplied vodka.
       A spokesman from the Russyan Embassy in Washington, a Yury Melnik, identified the corpse as that of Mr. Lesin.  The English language state run media outlet reported the heart attack story.  Let's assume that as a story with a back story.
       So, we have another sordid report of a former insider, now a corpse, who left town(Moskova) and turned up dead.  What will the FSB report to the Kremlin?  The usual -Mission Accomplished.
The investigation will probably turn up a gang of Chechens running loose around Dupont Circle in Washington, chasing oligarchs into their hotel rooms, seeking safety where there is none.  By the way, how is the Nemtsov investigation going? (27/2/15-Moskova drive-by shooting).
       Welcome to the modern day Kremlin.   How long will Al Assad hold up?