Russian foreign ministry senior official found dead!

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - December 19, 2016 - REN TV - the official state run media by the Russian Kremlin - has reported that one of the chief officials of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Peter Polshikov, has been found dead with a bullet wound to his head in his apartment. According to a rough translation from REN TV, Polshikov was found dead in his apartment with the gun and shells found under the kitchen sink. Additionally, the wife of the man was found in his apartment; it’s not clear whether she was found alive or dead.

This follows the murder earlier of Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov when a man now identified as Mevlut Mert Altintas killed the diplomat during the opening of an art expo. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has called the assassination a hit job and a ploy to destabilize Turkish and Russian political relations to impede the Syrian peace process, with both leaders vowing they will find those responsible behind Altintas.

Now there is another dead Russian diplomat found in his apartment less then 24 hours after the Karlov assassination.