A top ally of Vladimir Putin, and the editor of his favourite paper, has died suddenly on a business trip.
Vladimir Nikolayevich Sungorkin, 68, was editor-in-chief of Russian state newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda - and is thought to have tragically died after having from a stroke.
The 68-year-old reportedly died on Wednesday after showing signs of suffocation while on a business trip in the village of Roshchino, in Russia ’s far east region, his colleague Leonid Zakharov said.
