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Tom of Temecula

(1,632 posts)
Mon Jan 8, 2024, 03:37 PM Jan 2024

Head of Putin's state-run TV empire Zoya Konovalova, 48, found dead with ex-husband after being 'poisoned'

THE chief editor of one of Vladimir Putin's propaganda TV channels has been found dead from a suspected poisoning, it has been claimed. Zoya Konovalova, 48, who ran a channel operating near the frontlines of Mad Vlad's illegal war, was found alongside her ex-husband.

The Kuban editor was found in her bedroom and her 52-year-old former husband Andrey Gubatiyka's corpse was found close by. “No visible injuries were found during the examination of the bodies,” said a spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee, which is probing the deaths.The former couple shared a daughter, 15, and an adult son.

“The preliminary cause of death is poisoning by an unknown substance,” said a report by her own channel. A fragment of a plastic bag with a "powdery substance" was reportedly found in the TV chief’s private house in Krasnodar city. But her colleagues and friends insisted today she would never have taken drugs.

The Kuban media outlet is part of the state-run giant All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company [VGTRK], a key prop in Putin’s propaganda empire.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/10031097/russia-putin-zoya-konovalova-dies/

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Head of Putin's state-run TV empire Zoya Konovalova, 48, found dead with ex-husband after being 'poisoned' (Original Post) Tom of Temecula Jan 2024 OP
Tucker Carlson Is Available gab13by13 Jan 2024 #1
Were they out of windows? rurallib Jan 2024 #2
In September 2022, her boss Vladimir Sungorkin, 68, editor-in-chief and director general of Komsomolskaya Pravda, died ZonkerHarris Jan 2024 #3
I guess there's some housecleaning going on. Crunchy Frog Jan 2024 #4
The exit interview is a real bitch. ZonkerHarris Jan 2024 #5

rurallib

(64,688 posts)
2. Were they out of windows?
Mon Jan 8, 2024, 04:37 PM
Jan 2024

I wonder if Putin gives his victims a choice of how they die? Window? Poison? Drop from an airplane?

 

ZonkerHarris

(25,577 posts)
3. In September 2022, her boss Vladimir Sungorkin, 68, editor-in-chief and director general of Komsomolskaya Pravda, died
Mon Jan 8, 2024, 04:42 PM
Jan 2024
In September 2022, her boss Vladimir Sungorkin, 68,
editor-in-chief and director general of Komsomolskaya Pravda, died of a “heart attack” after showing signs of suffocation.

His death has been seen as suspicious.
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