The husband of Russia’s top propagandist has become the fourth high-ranking Putin crony to die in the space of just three days.
Tigran Keosayan, a well-known figure in Russian media circles, died on Friday after spending eight months in a coma, his wife said. Margarita Simoyan, editor-in-chief of RT, Russia’s leading state broadcaster, said on social media, “Tonight, Tigran went to the Creator.” She added, “Thank you to everyone who prayed. Please do not call me or the family now. Thank you all, thank you.” Keyosan is the latest in a series of Russian officials who mysteriously met their end over the past 48 hours. On Wednesday, construction boss and MP Vitaly Kapustin was found hanging from a tree branch with his hands tied behind his back, with witnesses strongly doubting he took his own life. Transport boss Alexander Fedotov, 49, was found dead at a hotel in Moscow on the same day, with no apparent cause of death and no suicide note. And ex-customs chief and oligarch Boris Avakyan was found dead with his wrists slit in a toilet in the Armenian consulate in St. Petersburg on Thursday, shortly after sneaking out of a Russian courtroom and seeking extradition to Armenia, where he held dual citizenship.
