Tigran Keosayan

Tigran Keosayan was a well-known Russian propagandist who hosted his program "Mezhdunarodnaya Pilorama" on the Russian TV channel NTV.

After the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the US, Canada and Australia imposed sanctions against him.

Tigran Keosayan suffered clinical death in December 2024 and was in a coma. He died on the night of September 26, 2025, without coming out of the coma.

He was the husband of Margarita Simonyan – a well-known Russian propagandist and editor-in-chief of the state TV channel Russia Today. 

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