Tigran Keosayan

Tigran Keosayan
Тигран Кеосаян
Three-quarters view of Keosayan against a white background
Keosayan in 2018
Born
Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan

(1966-01-04)4 January 1966
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died26 September 2025(2025-09-26) (aged 59)
Moscow, Russia
Cause of deathProblems caused by a heart attack
Occupations
  • Director
  • writer
  • actor
Years active1992–2024
Spouses
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(m. 1993; div. 2014)​
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(m. 2022)​
Children5

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.

Career

Keosayan anchored the daily analytical talk show With Tigran Keosayan on the Russian private TV channel REN-TV.

He won many movie festival prizes including TEFI, Kinotavr, and Window to Europe Film Festival [ru] 2001.

After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Keosayan was one of the people sanctioned by the European Union. This was because Keosayan was spreading anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

Personal life and death

He was married to Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT, as well as the state-owned media group Rossiya Segodnya.

In December 2024, Keosayan had a heart attack and was later put in a coma. He died on 26 September 2025 at a hospital in Moscow, Russia at the age of 59.

References

  1. ↑ СМИ: Тигран Кеосаян включен в Казахстане в список «нежелательных для въезда лиц», в котором есть «террористы»
  2. ↑ Russian propagandist Tigran Keosayan, husband of RT head Simonyan, dies after eight months in coma
  3. ↑ Prominent Russian propagandist and husband of RT chief Simonyan dies after months in coma
  4. ↑ ""С Тиграном Кеосаяном"". 11 October 2009. Archived from the original on 11 October 2009.
  5. ↑ Тигран Кеосаян. Биография и фильмография Archived 2020-08-17 at the Wayback Machine // russia.tv
  6. ↑ Nolsoe, Eir; Pop, Valentina (4 March 2022). "Russia sanctions list: What the west imposed over the Ukraine invasion". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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)
  9. ↑ "Russian News, English Accent". cbsnews.com. 11 December 2005. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  10. ↑ Ioffe, Julia (September–October 2010). "What is Russia Today?". Columbia Journalism Review.
  11. ↑ Margarita Simonyan biography Archived 21 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, NewsExchange.org, accessed 20 September 2012.
  12. ↑ "RT editor Simonyan to head Kremlin-backed news agency". BBC News. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  13. ↑ "RT Chief Simonyan Says Husband in Coma After Undergoing 'Clinical Death'". The Moscow Times. 9 January 2025. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
  14. ↑ "Умер Тигран Кеосаян". Meduza (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  15. ↑ "Симоньян сообщила о смерти Тиграна Кеосаяна". Российская газета (in Russian). 2025-09-26. Retrieved 2025-09-26.
  16. ↑ "Умер Тигран Кеосаян". ria.ru (in Russian). 2025-09-26. Retrieved 2025-09-26.

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