Soviet international journalist Georgy Zubkov died in Moscow. This was announced on July 5 by his wife.
“Yes, it’s true, unfortunately,” she is quoted as saying.RIA News“.
According to her, the journalist fell unsuccessfully a few days ago and broke his femoral neck.
“Apparently, the lungs could not stand it, but everything was fine … probably, the age of 96 no longer gave strength to fight, and just like that, one might say, burned out before our eyes,” said the journalist’s widow.
The time and place of the funeral of the journalist is not reported.
Zubkov in the early 60s was part of the journalistic pool that accompanied the then Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on trips. From 1972 to 1981, he headed the regional Department of Television and Radio for Western Europe in Paris.
Journalist – Professor of the Department of Mass Communications of the Faculty of Philology of the People’s Friendship University of Russia, writer, playwright, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR. Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
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