Tigran Keosayan

Tigran Edmondovich Keosayan (, ; 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.СМИ: Тигран Кеосаян включен в Казахстане в список «нежелательных для въезда лиц», в котором есть «террористы»Russian propagandist Tigran Keosayan, husband of RT head Simonyan, dies after eight months in comaProminent Russian propagandist and husband of RT chief Simonyan dies after months in coma

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  2001.Тигран Кеосаян. Биография и фильмография  // russia.tv 

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.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)

Personal life and death
He was married to Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT,Margarita Simonyan biography , NewsExchange.org, accessed 20 September 2012. 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.

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