Interesting how things work…..What was this a Marker for…..As you said the Appearance of a choice being made..
A Fourth Russian Ambassador in 9 Months Is Now Dead
All four deaths are reportedly premature.
Serving as a foreign diplomat has never been the safest business, nor has working for the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The intersection of those two gigs is even more dangerous. Russia's ambassador to Sudan was found dead in the African nation's capital of Khartoum Wednesday, according to The New York Times. That makes Mirgayas Shirinsky, a career diplomat in his early 60s, the fourth senior envoy from the Kremlin to "die prematurely" in the last nine months.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a57172/4-russian-ambassadors-dead-9-months/