Overview

• Simonyan wrote that her husband "went to the Lord" during the night of Sept. 25–26 and asked for privacy for the family.
• Keosayan had been in a coma since late 2024 after surviving a reported clinical death, with a long history of cardiac disease including heart attacks in 2008 and 2010 and aortocoronary stenting.
• A veteran director and TV presenter, he helmed the 2018 film about the Crimea bridge and hosted the NTV satirical show Mezhdunarodnaya Pilorama.
• Following Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he was sanctioned by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
• Simonyan recently confirmed she is undergoing cancer treatment, and some outlets noted his death was reported alongside other recent high-profile Russian fatalities, though his case followed prolonged illness.