Journalist Natalya Gorbunova died at the age of 47. This was reported on Monday, January 24, in RIA Novosti, where the woman worked.
The journalist became part of the news agency team in 1994. For many years she was a member of the Kremlin Pool (a group of journalists who regularly cover the activities of the government and the president of the Russian Federation. – Ed.) And worked with former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and current head of state Vladimir Putin.
Gorbunova, as a special correspondent and then coordinator of the “presidential group”, went on business trips in Russia and abroad with the country’s top officials. After she took the post of one of the heads of the agency’s news service. The journalist was awarded state awards and twice received the gratitude of the President of Russia.
“For several years in her 30s, she then headed the most serious division in any media – working with the government and the president. Amusement and cheerfulness were combined in her with a serious approach to work and hyper-responsibility, being late with the news, the mistake of any of her employees was perceived as her personal flaw, ”RIA Novosti quotes Elena Glushakova, deputy director of the main information directorate of MIA Rossiya Segodnya, who worked with a journalist in 2003.
Oleg Osipov, assistant to the deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, who worked with Gorbunova, also expressed his condolences in connection with the death of the journalist.
“Good man. Comrade. Professional. It’s a pity that this happened, ”Osipov told RIA Novosti.
Source: IZ
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