Applause rings out in honor of Tigran Keosayan as his coffin solemnly guided into hearse. Prayers for him and his wife RT's Margarita Simonyan.

❗️ Russian filmmaker and television host Tigran Keosayan has died after spending nine months in a coma

The news was confirmed by his wife, Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT.

He was in a coma brain dead, I think since January. Margarita had to have emergency surgery, earlier in September. Possibly breast cancer.

More: On last Monday Sept 22, Margatita said: Margarita Simonyan, head of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT and its parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, announced Monday that she’s being treated for cancer.

“I’d love to write that everything’s fine, but I try never to lie,” she wrote on Telegram. “[My husband] Tigran is still in a coma, and I’m undergoing cancer treatment. What’s good about that?”

(Sept 22nd partial from this article): https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/22/russian-propagandist-margarita-simonyan-announces-she-s-undergoing-cancer-treatment