Kremlin propagandist dies suddenly in Russia
Volodymyr Sungorkin, the editor-in-chief of the country's most popular publication Komsomolska Pravda, died suddenly in the Russian Federation at the age of 68.
This is reported by the Russian mass media.
According to Oleksandr Gamov, columnist of the publication, Volodymyr Sungorkin died during a business trip in the Khabarovsk Krai due to a stroke. At the same time, the military correspondent of "Komsomolska Pravda" Oleksandr Kots wrote that the editor-in-chief was on vacation and spent it with friends in the taiga in the Far East.
Volodymyra Sungorkin worked as the editor-in-chief of "Komsomolska Pravda" since 1997, and since 1998 he headed the board of directors of the publication. Since 2006, he has been a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Radio Svoboda writes that after the collapse of the USSR, Sungorkin became the owner of the publication and turned it into one of the first tabloids in Russia. The newspaper was one of the most widely circulated in the world, at its peak it claimed to have a circulation of over 35 million copies per day. In 2017, Sungorkin sold his holding to a billionaire close to the Kremlin, Grigory Berezkin.
During the presidency of Vladimir Putin, "Komsomolska Pravda" supported the course of the Kremlin. The newspaper's website is the most visited of the private mass media in Russia, it is read by 65 million users every month.
In 2014, the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin awarded Volodymyr Sungorkin with the IV degree "For Merit to the Fatherland" Order. In April 2022, the European Union included the editor-in-chief of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in the sanctions list and called him one of the main actors in Russian propaganda.
- News