Feb. 20, 2017

Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations since 2006, died suddenly in New York City on Monday, a day shy of his 65th birthday.

The New York Post reported that Churkin was taken ill “with heart problems,” quoting sources. He was pronounced dead at 10:55am local time, the same sources added. 

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2017/02/20/the-diplomatic-life-of-vitaly-churkin-a57215

He died shortly after his connections with Epstein were revealed:

Russian Ambassador to the UN (2006-2017). Died suddenly in February 2017. iMessage thread with Epstein includes “Good work on Syria” and brokering meetings with Ehud Barak. Lunch with Peter Thiel arranged by Epstein (Oct 2016). Deceased.

Key Findings

• EFTA01619434: Epstein-Churkin iMessage thread: Feb 12, 2016, Epstein to Churkin: “Good work on Syria, markets will continue bad”
• EFTA01619434: Nov 21, 2015, Epstein to Churkin: “You appear to have done good work. Congrats” (day after UN Security Council Resolution 2249 on Syria, Nov 20, 2015)
• EFTA01619434: Jan 2016, Epstein to Churkin: “Oil now at the 36$ level I suggested” – Epstein advising Russian UN Ambassador on oil markets
• EFTA01619434: Jan 2016, Epstein brokered meeting between Churkin and Larry Summers: “Larry Summers will be here as well”
• EFTA01619434: Jan 2016, Epstein to Churkin: “Ehud Barak in town this week if a meal is convenient” – Epstein brokering Barak-Churkin meeting
• EFTA00285133: Oct 25, 2015, Churkin introduced to Epstein as “Terje’s friend” via Terje Rød-Larsen
• EFTA00285270: May 2016, Epstein scheduled appointment “at Churkin’s home, 3 blocks away from JE” – Churkin lived near Epstein’s Manhattan mansion
• EFTA00285196: Aug 29, 2016, Joint lunch at Epstein’s: Ehud Barak, Tom Barrack, and Vitaly Churkin
• EFTA02041031: Oct 7, 2016, Lunch with Peter Thiel and Vitaly Churkin arranged by Jeffrey Epstein
• EFTA00285348: Jan 10, 2017, Lunch with Churkin and Tom Pritzker at Epstein’s (same day: breakfast with Ehud Barak and Pritzker), six weeks before Churkin’s death
• EFTA00285334: Feb 15, 2017, “Tea w/Churkin” at 3pm, followed by Leon Black appointment, five days before Churkin died suddenly at the Russian Consulate in New York (Feb 20, 2017)

https://tommycarstensen.com/epstein/people/vitaly-churkin.html

Churkin lived 3 blocks away from Jeffrey Epstein.

Melania was brought to the US by Paulo Zampolli, and he remains her closest friend. Zampolli was also a close friend of Vitaly Churkin.

7 days ago Nev Shalev, in an interview with Zampolli’s ex-wife, Amanda Ungaro, revealed on his Substack, the massive connections with Russia, linked to the UN, of Zampolli via Churkin:

BOMBSHELL CONNECTION: Melania Trump’s best friend Paolo Zampolli was closely connected to the former Russian Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, who also helped recruit Donald Trump in 1987 as a KGB asset, and was very close to Jeffrey Epstein.

See Narativ for more details:

Read alongside the Epstein files, they describe something there is no polite word for: a foreign-cultivated fixer, embedded in the First Family, for decades.

The record, plainly:

• Churkin. Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, attended Zampolli’s birthday party and toasted him on camera. Zampolli wrote to Churkin’s private Gmail — and six days after Russia annexed Crimea, his entire message was one word: “FANTASTIC.”
• The same channel as Trump and Epstein. Churkin is the diplomat who, according to Luke Harding’s reporting, helped arrange Trump’s first trip to Moscow in 1987 — and the man Jeffrey Epstein, in his own files, boasted he had “coached” on how to handle Donald Trump. Three men, one Kremlin conduit.
• Lavrov. Zampolli wrote directly to Vladimir Voronkov, the Russian who runs U.N. counter-terrorism, in intimate Russian. And Epstein named Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as the man who could reconnect him to Vladimir Putin after Churkin died.
• The women. Zampolli placed Russian models into United Nations roles — women with documented ties to Moscow, including one who has claimed Putin fathered her child.
• The Russia-backed man in the room. Also toasting Zampolli at that party: Vuk Jeremic, the Russia-backed president of the U.N. General Assembly.
• The passports. Zampolli represented a Caribbean island, Dominica — though he is Italian — and was known, Ungaro says, for peddling fraudulent diplomatic passports at $250,000 each.
• The immunity. Those credentials carried diplomatic immunity. Today he holds a United States government title — Special Envoy for Global Partnerships — that skipped the FBI background check and Senate confirmation entirely.

Amanda Ungaro has a copy of an email where Zampolli is congratulating ‘the Supreme Leader’ for invading and occupying Crimea in 5 days’ (a note he sent to himself).