The Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Alexander Darchiev, Russia's ambassador to the US, abruptly up and died Wednesday at the age of 66. The diplomat had headed the Russian Embassy in Washington DC -- a front for Kremlin espionage -- since March 2025. No cause of death was immediately announced; the ministry only wrote that Darchiev "passed away suddenly." In March 2025, ICC-indicted war criminal Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Darchiev as ambassador -- a man known for his public denunciations of the West -- following Dummkopf Trumpf seizing power on 20 Jan 2025. Darchiev also once served as Russia's ambassador to Canada where the RCMP certainly kept a wary eye on him in Ottawa.

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