Simonyan noted Vyshinsky's courageous approach to work as a journalist

Kirill Vyshinsky, the deceased executive director of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, was a courageous man and was not afraid to do his job in dangerous conditions. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya and RT, told Izvestia about this on August 23.

"Kirill Vyshinsky is a man of rare courage. <...> The man who headed our editorial office in Ukraine at a time when heading the editorial office of the Russian media in Ukraine already looked like, if not suicide, then a huge sacrifice. And he made this sacrifice deliberately," she said.

Simonyan stressed that in dangerous conditions for a Russian journalist, Vyshinsky wrote and talked about what he thought.

She recalled that he was arrested and spent more than a year in a Ukrainian prison, after which he was released as part of an exchange.

Kirill Vyshinsky, a journalist. Biography

Vyshinsky died on August 23 in Moscow after a serious and prolonged illness. He has worked on Ukrainian TV channels since 1996, and in 2006 became the Kiev correspondent for VGTRK. After the events of 2014, he became the head of the Ukrainian branch of RIA Novosti.

Later, Ashot Jazoyan, secretary of the Union of Journalists, told Izvestia that Vyshinsky was a wonderful friend and comrade, very sincere and educated. According to Jazoyan, he has always been distinguished by reasonable and balanced thoughts.

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