Journalist Sergei Dorenko died

In Moscow, the editor -in -chief of the Moscow Radio Says Moscow, Sergei Dorenko, died. This information was confirmed by the radio station itself. Dorenko was 59 years old.

The editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, said that Dorenko was driving on a motorcycle along the garden ring, drove into the oncoming lane and crashed into a concrete fence. According to Venediktov, the journalist lost consciousness while driving. The chief editor of the Echo of Moscow published in the telegram a video of the moment of the accident of the motorcycle Dorenko.

Dorenko became bad with the heart, said TASS's source in medical services. According to him, passers -by called an ambulance, but the doctors could not save the journalist. The RIA Novosti source also said that Dorenko’s death came due to natural causes.

Updated . According to preliminary data, Sergei Dorenko had an attack of acute heart failure, the source of Interfax said. “His heart stopped, and he could not stay on the motorcycle. The injuries received when falling from a motorcycle were not critical, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.

• In the 1990s, Sergei Dorenko led the ORT (now Channel One) program “Time” and “The author’s program of Sergey Dorenko”. It was removed from the air broadcasts in 2000, after the release of the death of the Kursk submarine. In the 2000s, Dorenko worked on the Echo of Moscow radio, then was the editor-in-chief of the Russian News Service and says Moscow.