THE deputy editor-in-chief of Vladimir Putin’s favorite newspaper has been discovered lifeless in Moscow.
Anna Tsareva’s physique was found at her house within the Russian capital.
Police have opened an investigation into the demise of the deputy editor of pro-Putin Komsomolskaya Pravda [KP], a high-flying Russian journalist, reported Baza on-line information outlet.
Preliminary stories say there was no indication of a break-in to her condominium.
“No indicators of violent demise have been discovered,” mentioned the report.
It’s identified she had developed an unspecified acute respiratory viral an infection, and had suffered a excessive fever for a number of days.
Nonetheless, Shot media reported right this moment that it’s suspected she died of “acute coronary heart failure”.
Her physique was discovered by her father who turned frightened that she had not been in contact since Sunday.
He entered her flat in Bolshoy Tishinsky Lane in central Moscow.
Tsareva was reported to be answerable for content material on Komsomolskaya Pravda’s web site, together with tales about Putin’s battle towards Ukraine.
It’s the greatest information web site in Russia with 83.9 million readers in October 2023.
She had been deputy editor-in-chief for six years.
In September 2022, her boss Vladimir Sungorkin, 68,
editor-in-chief and director basic of Komsomolskaya Pravda, died of a “coronary heart assault” after exhibiting indicators of suffocation.
His demise has been seen as suspicious.
He’s typically included amongst a listing of dozens of premature or mysterious deaths for the reason that begin of Putin’s battle.
Sungorkin fell unconscious on a tour of the Russian far east minutes after suggesting his group “discover an exquisite place someplace… for lunch.”
Colleague Leonid Zakharov mentioned: “Three minutes later, Vladimir started to suffocate. We took him out for recent air, he was already unconscious… Nothing helped.
“The physician who did the preliminary examination mentioned that apparently, it was a stroke. However that is the preliminary conclusion.”
Sungorkin has been sanctioned by the West over the battle.
He was branded by the European Fee as “one of many fundamental actors in international data manipulation and interference actions or propagandists who typically speaks out on Ukraine, creating misinformation and manipulating details.”
He was accused of “disseminating and legitimising aggressive anti-Ukraine and anti-Western propaganda of the Putin regime beneath direct Kremlin authority in one among Russia’s hottest media retailers.”
The fee acknowledged: “The newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has been described additionally by President Vladimir Putin as his favorite newspaper.”
The editor “is subsequently accountable for supporting actions and insurance policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine”.
KP was the biggest newspaper within the USSR and – after the autumn of the Soviet Union – Russia.
Tsareva beforehand labored as deputy editor at then staunchly impartial Echo Moscow radio station beneath highly-respected editor-in-chief Alexey Venediktov.
She additionally had a stint at state information company TASS.
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