In the United States, a report on Lesin's last days was partially published: he drank without drying, and walked around the hotel in his underpants

Former Minister of Press of the Russian Federation and ex-head of Gazprom-Media Mikhail Lesin, who died on November 5, 2015 in the Dupont Circle hotel room, went into a binge three days before his death, drinking beer, wine and strong alcohol in minibar bottles, as well as Johnnie Walker from large store bottles, reports reports The Washington Post , citing a 58-page police report on the investigation of his death. Excerpts from the article are published by Inopressa.ru .

The newspaper received a document under the Law on Freedom of Information, most of it is classified, including key pages that describe the autopsy in detail, so the question remained the question of how the 57-year-old ex-official accidentally died after falling and hitting his head.

The report says that Lesin drank constantly since on November 2, I registered at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown and as long as it was found dead three days later in the Penthaus on the ninth floor of the Dupont Circle Hotel.

Surveys of both hotels showed that Lesin repeatedly had security problems when he walked drunk in the halls, sometimes appearing in only one blue shirt and black underwear. Once the hotel representatives turned to the special service, who advised to put up a guard at his door. Lesin twice descended to the bar and took there bottles with strong alcohol.

The reports say that in the Four Seasons hotel in the afternoon of November 2, Lesin took a Coca Cola bottle and a small bottle of mini-bar five minutes after he entered the room.

At 13:45 on November 3, he met at a hotel with a friend. Seven minutes later, the guard approached Lesin's room and found that the guests had "disconnected on the bed." Four hours later, the Russian took alcohol from the mini-bar. Both, Lesin and his friend, "returned to the lobby" and "remained at the hotel." In that part of the documents that the police provided the newspaper, it is not specified what kind of “friend” it is and why he came to Lesin.

On the night of November 3, the guard noticed a bruise under Lesin under his left eye. He did not say how he received him. At night and in the morning of November 4, Lesin left the room, left the hotel twice and returned with alcohol, once returned with a bottle of Johnnie Walker whiskey.

He left Four Seasons at about 5 o’clock in the morning on November 4 and went to the Dupont Circle Hotel at 5:30, then returned to Four Seasons with a lot of alcohol from the store, but he was not allowed to the hotel and he headed to Dupont Circle.

The only injury, as the video surveillance shows, was a bruise under his left eye, but the hotel employee noted that Lesin, in his opinion, had no pain and was "very drunk."

About 14 o’clock the guard looked into the Lesin’s room and said that he was so drunk that he "stumbled." Another guard came to check it at night and inquired if he needed medical care. Lesin put his hand on the guard’s shoulder and answered in Russian: "No."

At 8:16, another guard entered his room and found that Lesin was lying down on the floor, but breathing. The guard could not wake him. At 11:30 on November 5, the guard went into the room again, Lesin was still lying down, the guard called 911.

The police found in the room a lot of bottles of mini-bar, three full bottles of Guinness beer and two disadvantaged bottles of red wine.

The investigation of the death of Lesin ended in the United States in October 2016. According to Washington’s prosecutor’s office, “as a result of the investigation that lasted almost a year, the chief forensic expert of the Columbia district corrected the cause of Lesin’s death with an“ uncertain case ”, an additional cause of death was acute alcohol poisoning. The investigation was closed.”

57-year-old Lesin entered his hotel room for the last time at about 10:48 on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, after several days of excessive alcohol consumption. The investigation came to the conclusion that he received the death of the injury at the moment when he was in the room one. The prosecutor's office concluded that he was injured as a result of falls with acute alcohol intoxication.

The press previously discussed other versions of Lesin's death. There were assumptions that the ex-minister could come to Washington to conclude a deal with the US authorities. It is known that he was under the close attention of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation. In July 2014, Senator Republican Roger Wizker turned to the FBI with a request to check whether the Russian media manager violated the legislation on corruption and laundering of money. The Whirister estimated the real estate of the ex-minister of the Russian Federation in the United States at $ 28 million and noted that the former head of Gazprom-Media transported his family to America. "The fact that the Russian civil servant was able to accumulate significant funds required for the acquisition and maintenance of this property in Europe and the United States raises serious questions," the senator wrote in the request.

The media also indicated that the bureau could not be interested in the origin of tens of millions of dollars of Lesin, but his connection with the Kremlin and Yuri Kovalchuk, the head of the Rossiya bank, which the American The Wall Street Journal called not only a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, but also his "wallet".

In this case, the most logical versions of what happened were the most logical: either the enemies killed the former minister of the press of the Russian Federation to shut up his mouth, or his death was staged as part of the witness protection program.

Lesin was headed by the Ministry of Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications of Russia from 1999 to 2004. On his initiative in 2005, the State TV channel Russia Today was created. He was also the founder of the Internet Internet. Then, until 2009, he worked as an adviser to the president on media issues. From autumn 2013 to December 2014, Lesin headed the Gazprom-Media holding.