【背景资料】谁是Vitaly Churkin？

据wikipedia.com

【英文】

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_Churkin

Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin (Russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Чу́ркин, IPA: [vʲɪˈtalʲɪj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕurkʲɪn]; 21 February 1952 – 20 February 2017) was a Russian diplomat and former child actor.[1] Churkin served as Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 2006 until his death in 2017.

Previously he was Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (2003–2006), Ambassador to Canada (1998–2003), Ambassador to Belgium and Liaison Ambassador to NATO and WEU (1994–1998), Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation to the talks on Former Yugoslavia (1992–1994), Director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR/Russian Federation (1990–1992). Churkin was fluent in English, French and Mongolian.

【中文】

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B6%AD%E5%A1%94%E5%88%A9%C2%B7%E4%B8%98%E7%88%BE%E9%87%91

Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin【1952-2017】是俄国外交官。他从2006年起任俄罗斯常驻联合国代表，直到2017年去世。

1974年加入苏联外交部。苏联解体后，曾任俄罗斯外交部副部长、俄常驻北约代表及俄驻比利时、加拿大大使等职位。

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【蹊跷的死亡】

2017年2月20日当地时间上午9时30分左右，丘尔金在纽约俄罗斯驻联合国办公室内突然感到心脏不适，送院抢救无效逝世。被埋葬在特罗耶库罗夫公墓。

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Churkin died in New York City on 20 February 2017, the eve of his 65th birthday.[16] The immediate cause was heart failure, according to Russian diplomat Sergei Ordzhonikidze.[17] The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Churkin died while at work and expressed condolences to Churkin's family.[18] 

Churkin 于65岁生日前夕，于2017年2月20日在纽约市去世。[16]据俄罗斯外交官谢尔盖·奥尔佐尼基泽说，直接原因是心力衰竭。[17]俄罗斯外交部指出，丘尔金在上班时去世，并对丘尔金的家人表示慰问。

On 21 February 2017, the New York City Medical Examiner's Office released the preliminary results of an autopsy performed on Churkin, which states that the cause of death needed further study, which often indicates the need for toxicology tests.[21] A gag order pursuant to a request of the U.S. State Department and the United States Mission to the United Nations suppressed public disclosure of the cause and manner of death, citing Churkin's posthumous diplomatic immunity; Russia maintained that the information was private and that disclosing details of the autopsy results could hurt his reputation.[22][23] Churkin was posthumously awarded the Russian Order of Courage on 21 February 2017[24] and the Order of the Serbian Flag 1st class.[25]

2017年2月21日，纽约市医学检查官办公室发布了对Churkin进行尸检的初步结果，该报告指出死亡原因需要进一步研究，这通常表明需要进行毒理学测试。[21]根据美国国务院和美国驻联合国代表团的要求作出的禁言令，以库尔金的死后外交豁免权为由，禁止公开披露死亡的原因和方式。俄罗斯坚持认为此信息是私人的，披露尸检结果的细节可能会损害其声誉。[22] [23]丘尔金于2017年2月21日被追授“俄罗斯勇气勋章” [24]和塞尔维亚国旗一等勋章。[25]

Churkin was the 5th Russian diplomat posted abroad to die unexpectedly, in a remarkably similar fashion, since November 2016, the first such death having occurred on the morning of the U.S. presidential election, 8 November 2016, inside the Russian consulate in NYC, – a fact that caused conspiracy theorists to try to detect a pattern.

Churkin是自2016年11月起第5位派驻国外的俄罗斯外交官以相似的方式死亡。首次死亡发生在2016年11月8日美国总统大选早晨，在纽约市俄罗斯领事馆内– 导致阴谋理论家试图发现一种模式的事实。