The journalist’s colleagues wrote in an obituary that he was a “symbol of the new national journalism” and had turned the Russian newspaper into a “powerful empire”.
The 68-year-old editor-in-chief of the Russian newspaper Pravda died “of a stroke”, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sangorkinwho was considered his ally Vladimir Putin.
As the Daily Mail reports, Sangorkin was reportedly showing signs of “asphyxiation” when he died on Wednesday, adding to the mystery surrounding the editor-in-chief’s untimely death.
The 68-year-old was traveling to Khabarovsk with colleagues from the newspaper before heading to Moscow when he collapsed.
His colleague, Leonid Zakharov, reported that three minutes later, he began to suffocate and his colleagues pulled him out to get fresh air.
He said that no one could save him, and that he sadly passed away, with the doctor who initially examined him concluding that the cause of death was a stroke.
The editor-in-chief of Pravda fainted minutes after telling his entourage that he needed to find “a nice place somewhere… for lunch.”
The journalist’s colleagues wrote in an obituary that he was a “symbol of the new national journalism” and had turned the Russian newspaper into a “powerful empire”.
The Russian president had praised the staunchly pro-government outlet in 2020, marking Pravda’s 95th anniversary.
He had characteristically written at the time that the “legendary” newspaper “has traveled a long creative path over the years and has written brilliant and unforgettable pages in the history of Russian mass media.
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