Vlad’s election fixer who coined motto ‘Putin’s always right’ dies suddenly from heart attack days after ‘seeming well’

VLADIMIR Putin’s alleged election fixer for over nine years has died suddenly from a heart attack despite “seeming well” days earlier. Vladimir Churov, 70, had been chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission. Vladimir Churov, 70, died suddenly of a heart attack He notoriously operated under a motto that “Putin is always right”, said reports. Opposition factions strongly criticised him over “election fraud” in Putin’s favour during her term from 2007 to 2016. He later became a Russian ambassador at large personally appointed by Putin. Lawmaker Leonid Ivlev told TASS: “It is sad news indeed. [He died] after surgery in a hospital at 8:00 am today. “[He] passed away after suffering a serious heart attack.” The former election chief had appeared in good health on Monday and Tuesday this week, said Ivlev, his friend, and he had been talking about future plans. A former Western diplomat in Moscow said: “Churov knew where the bodies were buried over election falsification which gave Putin a clear run, preventing opposition parties gaining a foothold.” He was seen as doing the Kremlin’s bidding to give presidential and parliamentary polls the veneer of respectability when in fact they were rigged. When he died he was writing a book on alleged US meddling in elections abroad.