I've read about this a couple of days ago at the Yandex's top news links. After that I googled a little in English and found a couple of Turkish sources that wrote about a body of Russian diplomat with the same name was found 13th of August. Today we can read a little more detailed info in the news:
http://lenta.ru/news/2010/08/30/drown/
What's the most unusual and "scary" it's the rank of the officer.....: major general and deputy chief of Russia's military intelligence.... And the place of incident: Syria....Home to the alawite minority thuggish dictatorship and Headquarters to the infamous White House Murder INC, and its CEO Asef SHAWKAT....who is a CIA/MOSSAD agent since January 24th 2002...and the Chief assassin on behalf of CIA/MOSSAD....
Major-General Yuri Ivanov, 52, was the deputy head of Russia’s foreign military intelligence arm known as GRU which is thought to operate the biggest network of foreign spies out of all of Russia’s clandestine intelligence services...
His badly decomposed body was found washed up on the Turkish coast by local fishermen earlier this month after he disappeared in the Syrian coastal resort of Latakia further south. The Russian army’s in-house newspaper, Red Star, did not report his death until last Saturday when he was quietly buried in Moscow....
According to the Kremlin, he was on holiday in Syria and died in a tragic swimming accident. However, other reports have suggested he was on official business and the location where he is reported to have disappeared was only about fifty miles from a strategically vital Russian naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus which is being expanded and upgraded to service and refuel ships from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet....
The facility is Russia’s only foothold in the Mediterranean Sea, and the Siamese twins CIA/ Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, are know to be concerned that Moscow will use the upgraded facility as a base for spy ships and electronic espionage directed at the Middle East.... The port is also close to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, a terminal for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline which is seen as a lifeline for Georgia, against whom Russia fought a short war in 2008.
