In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Yuryevich and the family name is Lesin.
Mikhail Lesin
Михаил Лесин
Lesin (left) with Vladimir Putin, 2002
Minister of Press and Mass Media
In office 6 July 1999 – 9 March 2004
Prime Minister
Vladimir Putin Mikhail Kasyanov
Preceded by
Ivan Laptev (as head of the Committee for Mass Media)
Succeeded by
Mikhail Seslavinsky (as head of the Federal Agency for Mass Media)
Head of the Presidential Office for Public Relations
In office 14 September 1996 – 10 March 1997
President
Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
Mikhail Margelov
Personal details
Born
(1958-07-11)11 July 1958 Moscow, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Died
5 November 2015(2015-11-05) (aged 57) Washington, D.C., United States
Resting place
Los Angeles, California, United States
Mikhail Yuryevich Lesin (Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Лесин; 11 July 1958 – 5 November 2015) was a Russian political figure, media executive and advisor to president Vladimir Putin.[1] In 2006, he was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", one of Russia's highest state decorations for civilians. Lesin was nicknamed the Bulldozer (Russian: Бульдозер) because of his ability to get virtually all Russian media outlets under the Kremlin's control, and for being combative in person.[2][3]
Lesin died in a Washington, D.C., hotel room under unusual circumstances. His family initially said the cause of death was a heart attack, but after a year-long investigation Washington's chief medical examiner and federal authorities released a joint statement saying Lesin died of blunt-force trauma to his head, induced by falls amid acute ethanol intoxication.[4][5] A leaked report by Christopher Steele for the FBI said Lesin was bludgeoned to death by men working for an oligarch close to Putin.
^"Mikhail Yuriyevich Lesin". Lenta.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 7 November 2015. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
^Pete Williams (28 October 2016). "Death of 'The Bulldozer', Former Putin Aide, in U.S. Declared Accidental". NBC News. Archived from the original on 8 November 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
^Mikhail Khodorkovsky (14 March 2016). "The Bulldozer". khodorkovsky.com. Archived from the original on 2 September 2022. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
^Fandos, Nicholas; Myers, Steven Lee (10 March 2016). "Mystery Deepens Over the Death of a Former Putin Ally". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
^Robbie Gramer (28 October 2016). "Prosecutor: Putin's Former Press Secretary Died in D.C. Hotel Because He Was Drunk". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 29 October 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2016 – via Yahoo! News.
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