The editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda Vladimir Sungorkin has died at the age of 68, TASS reports citing a source. Later, the information was confirmed in the publishing house "KP".
Komsomolskaya Pravda editor-in-chief Vladimir Sungorkin has died at the age of 68. The editors express their condolences to the family and friends of Vladimir Nikolaevich, ”the KP statement says.
According to TASS, the cause of death was a stroke.
As the KP columnist Alexander Gamov told RTVI, Sungorkin was on a business trip in the Khabarovsk Territory. Who will take his place at the head of the editorial board is still unknown.
According to Zvezda, citing a source in KP, Sungorkin died during a motor rally. According to the interlocutor of the channel, he was taken to the district hospital, but the doctors could not save him.
The Insider has previously published material about commissioned articles in Russian media, including Komsomolskaya Pravda. Then Sungorkin did not deny the fact of "jeans" and struck the editors of The Insider with the cynicism of his answer. Here is a snippet of that interview :
– Do you really think that “custom” materials are a normal practice?
– Yes.
– But how do you think the reader can distinguish ordinary material from paid material?
– We have special advertising columns where commercial materials are published.
– Now I have before my eyes a material about the elections to the Moscow City Duma called "Honest Victory", it was custom-made, but printed in the usual heading.
– I understand your logic, but in our time, when there are such flows of information, the reader should not be interested in what kind of relations the media has with the city hall, for example, or some Borjomi plant, but should be interested in whether he is given information or disinformation. Take the article "Fair Victory". If it really was a fair victory, then what difference does it make if the media had some kind of information contract?
Komsomolskaya Pravda (together with other Kremlin media) participated in the justification of the police officers who broke the arm of Mediazona correspondent David Frenkel: in its article, the publication published Frenkel's fake correspondence with some unknown person, nowhere indicating who provided these screenshots. In this dialogue, "Frenkel" urged an unknown interlocutor to come to the specified polling station and "fit into the movement", where the correspondent would be beaten by law enforcement officers.