Tigran Keosayan
Tigran Keosayan | |
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| Тигран Кеосаян | |
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| Born | Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan 4 January 1966 |
| Died | 26 September 2025 (aged 59) Moscow, Russia |
| Cause of death | Problems caused by a heart attack |
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| Years active | 1992–2024 |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 5 |
Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan (Armenian: Տիգրան էդմոնդի Քեոսայան, Russian: Тигран Эдмондович Кеосаян; 4 January 1966 – 26 September 2025) was a Russian movie director, actor and television presenter. His works were often called pro-Russia and pro-Putin propaganda.[1][2][3]
Career
[change | change source]Keosayan anchored the daily analytical talk show With Tigran Keosayan on the Russian private TV channel REN-TV.[4]
He won many movie festival prizes including TEFI, Kinotavr, and Window to Europe Film Festival 2001.[5]
After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Keosayan was one of the people sanctioned by the European Union.[6][7] This was because Keosayan was spreading anti-Ukrainian propaganda.[8]
Personal life and death
[change | change source]He was married to Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT,[9][10][11] as well as the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya.[12]
In December 2024, Keosayan had a heart attack and was later put in a coma.[13] He died on 26 September 2025 at a hospital in Moscow, Russia at the age of 59.[14][15][16]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ СМИ: Тигран Кеосаян включен в Казахстане в список «нежелательных для въезда лиц», в котором есть «террористы»
- ↑ Russian propagandist Tigran Keosayan, husband of RT head Simonyan, dies after eight months in coma
- ↑ Prominent Russian propagandist and husband of RT chief Simonyan dies after months in coma
- ↑ ""С Тиграном Кеосаяном"". 11 October 2009. Archived from the original on 11 October 2009.
- ↑ Тигран Кеосаян. Биография и фильмография Archived 2020-08-17 at the Wayback Machine // russia.tv
- ↑ Nolsoe, Eir; Pop, Valentina (4 March 2022). "Russia sanctions list: What the west imposed over the Ukraine invasion". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ↑ Cunningham, Erin; Santamariña, Daniela; Alcantara, Chris (15 March 2022). "Who's in Putin's inner circle and have they been targeted by sanctions?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ↑ DURCHFÜHRUNGSVERORDNUNG (EU) 2022/336 Durchführungsverordnung (EU) 2022/336 des Rates zur Durchführung der Verordnung (EU) Nr. 269/2014 über restriktive Maßnahmen angesichts von Handlungen, die die territoriale Unversehrtheit, Souveränität und Unabhängigkeit der Ukraine untergraben oder bedrohen, PDF, (German)
- ↑ "Russian News, English Accent". cbsnews.com. 11 December 2005. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
- ↑ Ioffe, Julia (September–October 2010). "What is Russia Today?". Columbia Journalism Review.
- ↑ Margarita Simonyan biography Archived 21 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, NewsExchange.org, accessed 20 September 2012.
- ↑ "RT editor Simonyan to head Kremlin-backed news agency". BBC News. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
- ↑ "RT Chief Simonyan Says Husband in Coma After Undergoing 'Clinical Death'". The Moscow Times. 9 January 2025. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
- ↑ "Умер Тигран Кеосаян". Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
- ↑ "Симоньян сообщила о смерти Тиграна Кеосаяна". Российская газета (in Russian). 2025-09-26. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
- ↑ "Умер Тигран Кеосаян". ria.ru (in Russian). 2025-09-26. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
Other websites
[change | change source]
- Official website (in Russian)
- Tigran Keosayan on IMDb
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