【背景資料】誰是Vitaly Churkin？

據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】是俄國外交官。他從2006年起任俄羅斯常駐聯合國代表，直到2017年去世。

1974年加入蘇聯外交部。蘇聯解體後，曾任俄羅斯外交部副部長、俄常駐北約代表及俄駐比利時、加拿大大使等職位。

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【蹊蹺的死亡】

2017年2月20日當地時間上午9時30分左右，丘爾金在紐約俄羅斯駐聯合國辦公室內突然感到心臟不適，送院搶救無效逝世。被埋葬在特羅耶庫羅夫公墓。

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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 於65歲生日前夕，於2017年2月20日在紐約市去世。[16]據俄羅斯外交官謝爾蓋·奧爾佐尼基澤說，直接原因是心力衰竭。[17]俄羅斯外交部指出，丘爾金在上班時去世，並對丘爾金的家人表示慰問。

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，紐約市醫學檢查官辦公室發布了對Churkin進行屍檢的初步結果，該報告指出死亡原因需要進一步研究，這通常表明需要進行毒理學測試。[21]根據美國國務院和美國駐聯合國代表團的要求作出的禁言令，以庫爾金的死後外交豁免權為由，禁止公開披露死亡的原因和方式。俄羅斯堅持認為此信息是私人的，披露屍檢結果的細節可能會損害其聲譽。[22] [23]丘爾金於2017年2月21日被追授“俄羅斯勇氣勳章” [24]和塞爾維亞國旗一等勳章。[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位派駐國外的俄羅斯外交官以相似的方式死亡。首次死亡發生在2016年11月8日美國總統大選早晨，在紐約市俄羅斯領事館內– 導致陰謀理論家試圖發現一種模式的事實。