Blogger Anton Nosik died

On Sunday night, media manager and blogger Anton Nosik died in Moscow. This was announced on Twitter by the owner of Vedomosti Demyan Kudryavtsev. This information was also confirmed by the editor-in-chief of Ekho Moskvy Alexei Venediktov.

According to Ekho Moskvy, the cause of death of 51-year-old Nosik was a heart attack.

Nosik participated in the creation of a number of major news publications, such as Lenta.ru, Gazeta.ru and NEWSru.com. In 2009, he took the position of Deputy General Director of United Media and the position of Chief Editor of Bfm.ru. From November 2011 to November 2012 Anton Nosik was the media director of SUP Media, which owns the LiveJournal service.

Nosik introduced a popular blog in LiveJournal, for one of the posts “Erase Syria off the face of the earth” a was initiated against the blogger. criminal case

The Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced him to a fine of 500,000 rubles under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred). The Moscow City Court on appeal reduced the amount of the fine.