WHO DIED AT THE RUSSIAN CONSOLATE ON NOV 8?

Nov 8, 2016, US Election Day, an employee found dead in the Russian Consulate with head and
facial wounds was identified as 63- year-old Sergei Krivov. He was employed as the Consular Duty
Commander. Initially police reported the man had fallen dozens of feet from the roof of the consular
building and suffered blunt force trauma to his head. Later it was reported that he had suffered a heart
attack in the security office, possibly hit his head during the cardiac episode, and died. Follow-up on the
event was made difficult in that the mans home address as listed on the incident report, turned out to
be a Smithsonian-owned office building for its neighboring Cooper Hewitt design museum. Despite
being described as a Manhattan resident by the NYPD, Krivov cannot be found in any NY public records.
The NYPD closed the file before the medical examiner had a cause of death determination, the body was
released the next day, and requests for copies of the police report were refused, even after the case was
closed.

No one seems to want to discuss this, one law enforcement source said, after reaching out to other law
enforcement officials to see what they had heard about the case.

In the hours following Krivovs death, the NYPD had said it would identify him following notification of his
family. When BuzzFeed News asked for his identity months later, police immediately said the request
would have to go to through the US State Department.

The State Department, after being initially responsive, abruptly told BuzzFeed News it wouldnt help, and
said the information would have to come from the Russian Consulate.

No one seems to want to discuss this.

Im not sure why they would or would not want to share this, one State Department official said in a
follow-up phone call, referring to the NYPD and the State Department. A New York police officer
eventually gave BuzzFeed News Krivovs name. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alimwatkins/the-strange-
case-of-the-russian-diplomat-who-got-his-head-sm?utm_term=.cdkd0x8xZ#.gs9DbGWGo

(NOTE: The information given the police of the address and possibly the name of the victim appears to
be false. If so, who was this man? An online search of that name, leads to Sergei Krivov, activist of the
Republican Party of Russia Peoples Freedom Party and the opposition movement Solidarnost,. He
was arrested on October 18, 2012, on charges of participating in mass riots on May 6, 2012, on
Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, and of using force against the police. Per investigators, while confronting
the police after the March of Millions mass demonstration, Krivov grabbed a police officers
truncheon, hit the officer, and pushed another one. Prosecutors demanded a sentence of six years in
prison for Krivov. On February 24, Moscows Zamoskvoretsky Court sentenced him to four years at a
general regime penal colony. He was released July, 2016. A Facebook page exists, spelled Sergey Krivov,
with same photo, but cannot guarantee it is a legit account. https://www.facebook.com/sergey.krivov.3
There is also a strange Twitter account: https://twitter.com/KrikovS )

This is Sergei Krivov, the political prisoner

https://www. buzzfeed.com/alimwatkins/the-strange-case-of-the-russian-diplomat-who-got-his-head-
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http://pravo-ural.ru/en/2015/02/05/political-prisoner-sergey-krivov-was-transferred-into-a-secure-
place-video/

https://therussianreader.com/2016/07/29/sergei-krivov-bolotnaya-square-convict-released/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russian-ambassador-un-vitaly-churkin-dead-
diplomat-dies-suddenly-new-york-puton-a7590366.html