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<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2e2323;font-size:14px"><strong>Editor-in-chief of Russian state newspaper Pravda died Wednesday of a &#8216;stroke&#8217; during a business trip to the Khabarovsk territory in Russia&#8217;s far east</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2e2323;font-size:14px"><strong>Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, 68, the <strong>latest Putin ally to expire in mysterious circumstances,</strong> was showing signs of suffocation when died</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2e2323;font-size:14px"><strong>He was on business trip with colleagues from the pro-Kremlin newspaper when he fell unconscious, according to his deputy Leonid Zakharov who witnessed his passing </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2e2323;font-size:14px"><strong>Three minutes after suggesting to his travelling companions that they should stop for lunch, Sungorkin began to suffocate and the group took him out for fresh air </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2e2323;font-size:14px"><strong>The group took him out for fresh air but nothing helped and he passed away</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#2e2323;font-size:14px"><strong>The doctor who initially examined him said he died of a stroke </strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Vladimir-Nikolayevich-Sungorkin-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-417118"/><figcaption><strong>Pravda Editor-In-Chief Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, [photo] , was reportedly showing signs of &#8216;suffocation&#8217; when he died on Wednesday</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The editor-in-chief of Russian state newspaper Pravda died Wednesday of a &#8216;stroke&#8217; during a business trip to the Khabarovsk territory in Russia&#8217;s far east, the latest Putin ally to expire in mysterious circumstances. <br>Witnesses said Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin was reportedly showing signs of &#8216;suffocation&#8217; when he died on Wednesday.<br>The 68-year-old, was travelling towards Khabarovsk with colleagues from the paper before heading back to Moscow, when he fell unconscious.<br>According to his colleague, Pravda Deputy Editor-In-Chief Leonid Zakharov who witnessed the death of his boss, “It happened absolutely suddenly, nothing foreshadowed.&#8221; <br>As they were driving through the village of Roshchino, on their way towards Khabarovsk, Sungorkin said: “Come on, guys, let’s find a beautiful place somewhere, have a bite, stop, have lunch.” Everyone willingly supported this, this idea. Three minutes later, Sungorkin began to suffocate and the group took him out for fresh air. <br>He said that no one could save him and he sadly passed away, with the doctor who initially examined him concluding that he died of a stroke. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/image-38.png" alt="" class="wp-image-417120" width="839" height="565"/><figcaption><strong>Sungorkin, seen [left], with Russian president Vladimir Putin at a 2018 meeting of Russian journalists in Moscow, is the the latest Putin ally to expire in mysterious circumstances</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Putin had praised the staunch pro-Kremlin media outlet Komosomolskaya Pravda in 2020 on the 95th anniversary of its first issue. <br>He wrote in a statement: &#8216;The legendary Komsomolka has traveled a long creative path over these years and has written brilliant unforgettable pages in the history of the Russian media. <br> &#8216;It is crucial that the current staff of the newspaper pass on these traditions from generation to generation and strive to retain the newspaper&#8217;s flagship position in the Russia media market.&#8217; <br>Sungorkin&#8217;s colleagues wrote in an obituary that the journalist was a &#8216;symbol of new national journalism&#8217; and had built the newspaper into a &#8216;mighty empire.&#8217; </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Vladimir-Nikolayevich-Sungorkin-2-1024x538.png" alt="" class="wp-image-417121"/><figcaption><strong>Vladimir Sungorkin [photo], is the latest in a long line of Russia&#8217;s oligarch class and close allies of Putin to die in &#8216;mysterious circumstances&#8217; </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">He said that no one could save him and he sadly passed away, with the doctor who initially examined him concluding that he died of a stroke.<br>The 68-year-old is the latest in a long line of Russia&#8217;s oligarch class and close allies of Putin to die in &#8216;mysterious circumstances.&#8217; <br>Local Russian media outlets reported that Ivan Pechorin died most recently, after &#8216;falling from a boat&#8217; in Vladivostok. <br>Pechorin was aviation director for Russia&#8217;s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Ivan-Pechorin-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-417115" width="842" height="608"/><figcaption><strong>Ivan Pechorin, [photo], aviation director for Russia&#8217;s Far East and Arctic Development Corporation, was the most recent demise of a Putin ally, after &#8216;falling from a boat&#8217; in Vladivostok </strong></figcaption></figure>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Local Russian media outlets reported that Ivan Pechorin died most recently, after &#8216;falling from a boat&#8217; in Vladivostok. <br>And on February 25, the body of Alexander Tyulakov, a senior Gazprom financial and security official was found by his lover. <br>It came after the death Leonid Shulman, who was head of transport at Gazprom Invest. <br>He was found three weeks earlier with stab wounds on his bathroom floor. <br>Other allies who were found dead included Vladislav Avayev, 51, an ex-vice-president of Gazprombank and former Kremlin official and Sergey Protosenya.</p>

Editor-in-chief of Russian state owned newspaper Pravda dies of ‘stroke’ during business trip – Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, 68, is the latest Putin ally to expire in mysterious circumstances
