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<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Mirgayas Shirinskiy, Russia’s ambassador to Sudan found dead at his residence in Khartoum on Wednesday</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#0a0101;"><strong>Shirinskiy, 62, is the fourth Russian envoy to die in past eight months</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="wp-caption-text featured"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-242790" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/mirgayas-shirinskiy-21.jpg" alt="Mirgayas Shirinskiy 21.jpg" width="1200" height="1049" /><strong>Russia’s ambassador to Sudan, Mirgayas Shirinskiy, died Wednesday in his swimming pool</strong></h6>
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<div> Russia’s ambassador to Sudan, Mirgayas Shirinskiy, was found dead in his swimming pool Wednesday, the fourth Russian envoy to die in just eight months.<br />
Police found him at his home in home in the country’s capital, Khartoum, officials said. Doctors came immediately, but were not able to save him, <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/400685-russian-ambassador-sudan-dead/">according to Russian state media</a>.<br />
Shirinskiy, 62, had high blood pressure, and authorities believe he died of natural causes, police told Reuters.</div>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-242825" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/russian-ambassador-alexander-kadakin.png" alt="Russian ambassador Alexander Kadakin.png" width="658" height="583" /><strong>Russian ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin, a career diplomat died in a Delhi hospital in January after a heart attack. </strong></h6>
<div>Three other Russian emissaries have died in since December.<br />
Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov was assassinated in December, during a speech at an art gallery, by a gun-wielding former Turkish cop shouting “Allahu Akbar!” and “Don’t forget Aleppo! Don’t forget Syria!”<br />
Ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin died at 68 from an illness in January.<br />
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Cameras capture the moment an assassin killed Andrei Karlov, Russian ambassador to Turkey in front of crowd at art exhibition</a></p>
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<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-242811" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/russias-president-vladimir-putin-left-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-right-and-ambassador-to-the-united-nations-vitaly-churkin.jpg" alt="Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin .jpg" width="1200" height="953" /><strong>President Vladimir Putin, [left], Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, [right], and Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin [center] listen to speakers during the 70th session of the UN General Assembly Sept. 28, 2015. </strong></h6>
<p>Vitaly Churkin, ambassador to the United Nations died after suffering cardiac arrest in Manhattan Monday morning before his 65th birthday in February.<br />
Vitaly Churkin fell ill at his office at the Russian Mission to the U.N. on East 67th Street, New York around 9:30 a.m. and was unconscious when emergency personnel arrived, sources said.<br />
At the time of his death Churkin was the longest-serving member of the Security Council, the UN’s most powerful body.</p>
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Russian ambassador to Sudan found dead in swimming pool
