The very same day the year before, on January 11, a well-known Russian TV host and journalist, a member of the Academy of Russian Television Mihail Zelensky died unexpectedly.
Viewers of the CIS countries remembered Mihail Zelensky for his participation in such popular TV projects as “Tansy na ldu”, “Fort Boyard” on “Rossiya” TV channel, also he hosted a talk show.
“Pryamoy efir”, the news broadcast “Vesti-Moskwa” (“Rossiya”), “Novosti kultiry” (“Kultura”) In 2013, he entered the group of torchbearers at the Moscow stage of the Olympic Torch Relay of the Olympic Games in Sochi.
According to colleagues, Zelensky was a born showman, was not afraid to experiment in the frame, could find an approach to any interlocutor, with equal success maintaining a conversation on social or cultural topics.
Mikhail Zelensky died at the age of 46 while on vacation in the Dominican Republic from a myocardial infarction.