Pro-Kremlin TV personality Tigran Keosayan was hospitalized in a coma after undergoing clinical death, his wife Margarita Simonyan, who heads the state-funded broadcaster RT,said Wednesday.My husband, Tigran Keosayan, survived clinical death and is in a coma, Simonyan wrote in a late-night Telegram message, saying he has a long-standing heart condition.Clinical death happens when a persons heart stops pumping blood through the body and it is paired with a loss of breathing.
Without immediate medical intervention, reversing the condition becomes impossible and legal death is declared.Keosayan washospitalized in late December in highly critical condition, according to Baza, a Telegram channel with purported links to Russian law enforcement.He suffered heart attacks in 2008 and 2010.Keosayan, 59, is a Russian actor and director of Armenian descent who began hosting a pro-Kremlin satirical comedy show in 2016.
He sparked controversy in 2020 for featuring an impersonation of former United States President Barack Obama inblackface.In 2018, Keosayan directed a patriotic romantic comedy about the Russian-built bridge in Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
The movie received poor reviews and was among the lowest-rated on film review websites.The European Union and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on Keosayan after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.Since the full-scale invasion, Keosayans comments have sparked controversies among Russias traditional alliesKazakhstan andArmenia.Those who love Tigran, I dare ask you to pray for him, Simonyan wrote on Telegram.