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Olga Lautman @olgaNYC1211
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Putin’s top legal adviser Dep AG Saak Karapetyan died in a helicopter crash yesterday.

Among his duties was investigating & disputing Skripal attack, handling the Litvinenko and Berezovsky investigation, and setting up the Trump Tower Don Jr-Russia meet to deliver Hillary dirt
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Source for the crash
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Source for his department being involved in the 2016 election
This death clearly comes at a suspicious time when the Skripal operation is being exposed. Privately Putin is not happy with his agents not only getting caught but with methods of operation being exposed. In other words he sees this as a huge screw up on behalf of his agencies
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Russian deputy attorney general, Saak Albertovich Karapetyan, who is thought to have directed RU attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya in her efforts abroad on behalf of RU's government, reportedly died Wednesday night in a helicopter crash unauthorized helicopter flight, outside Moscow
Russian official Dead tied to RU Attny Natalia Veselnitskaya
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Man Suspected of Directing Russian Lawyer on Trump Tower 2016 Meeting Dies in Helicopter Crash lawandcrime.com/high-profile/m…
According to the Daily Beast, Russian Deputy Attorney General Saak Albertovich Karapetyan died in a helicopter crash “during an unauthorized flight” on Wednesday. The helicopter went down in a forest; he was 58.
It’s been reported that Karapetyan plotted to recruit law enforcement from another country to act as a double-agent for Moscow.

Adding to the mystery is that the pilot of that helicopter, Stanislav Mikhnov, 54, reportedly decided to fly in “adverse conditions” without approval.
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BREAKING: British prosecutors say they believe they have enough evidence to charge two Russian nationals over the poisoning of Sergei & Yulia #Skripal in Salisbury in March. Their names are Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov #skripalpoisoning
Photos of suspects - their names believed to be aliases. Police say they travelled to UK from Moscow on March 2nd, went to Salisbury on 3rd & 4th (day of attack) and returned to Moscow that evening. Minute traces of novichok were found in their London hotel room. #skripals
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Russian Embassy tweets on spy poisoning is a perfect window into how Russian officials lie, obfuscate, gaslight and troll to deflect Kremlin responsibility. Let's review some Embassy tweets on the poisoning of ex spy #Skripal & daughter in the UK with a chemical weapon last wk 1/
2/ Skripal & daughter Yulia were attacked with a chemical weapon in a lovely restaurant or pub in sleepy Salisbury. Russian Embassy doesn’t react w/ shock or sympathy–but immediately deflects blame, using the now standard Kremlin propaganda playbook. This was the press release.
3/ The Embassy’s #Skripal talking points are used so often by Putin & Kremlin officials, we know the script:
a) Russophobia–Hysteria–Russia's the real victim
b) Speculation–No Proof
c) Show us Classified Evidence
d) Deflection–confusion–gaslighting
e) West's Hypocrisy
f) Trolling
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Critically ill Russian national is 66yo Sergei Skripal, former intel colonel/double agent granted refuge in UK after a 2010 "spy swap" between US & Russia. He and a woman were apparently poisoned in/near Salisbury shopping center. bbc.in/2D2oj7X
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Skripal's brother, son & wife have been killed in the last 2 year.
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