Mikhail Lesin died

On Friday, November 6, in Washington, at the age of 57, the former Minister of Press of Russia and Chairman of the Board of Gazprom-Media died Mikhail Lesin.

According to RIA Novosti , the cause of death was a heart attack.

Mikhail Yuryevich Lesin was born in 1958 in Moscow, in 1984 he graduated from the Kuibyshev Moscow Engineering Institute, began working on television in the late 1980s, in 1990-1993 he headed the RTV youth creative production association, and from 1993 to 1996 he was the head of the commercial department, general director of the television company RIA RIA RIA RIA. News.

In 1996-1997, he worked as the head of the Presidential Directorate for Public Relations, in 1997-1999 - the first deputy chairman of the VGTRK, in 1999-2004 - Minister of the Russian Federation for Press, Broadcasting and Mass Communications, in 2004-2009 - adviser to the President of the Russian Federation.

From autumn 2013 to January 2015, Mikhail Lesin held the post of chairman of the board (General Director) of the Gazprom-Media holding.

PS, as TASS reports with reference to the Russian Embassy in the United States, Mikhail Lesin died on Thursday, November 5. In the morning he was discovered by the dead maid in the Dupon Serkl hotel in the center of Washington, where he stopped. According to preliminary data, there were no signs of violent death, however, the police began the investigation.