Maksym Sokolov, a publicist and former presenter of the First Channel, died

Russian publicist Maksym Sokolov died. Sokolov’s wife reported this in his VKontakte account. According to her, he died suddenly, the causes of death are being clarified.

Sokolov was 64 years old. After founding the newspaper “Kommersant” in 1989, he worked as a correspondent for this publication. In the 1990s, he collaborated with Radio Svoboda. For many years he was a columnist for the magazine “Expert”, later published in “Izvestia”. In the 2010s, he was published in such publications as RIA “Novosti”, “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and on RT. A distinctive sign of his style were numerous Latin sentences and quotations from the works of Russian classics.

In 2001-2003, he was one of the presenters of the “Odnako” program on the First Channel of Russian Television, and also worked at VGTRK (TV channel “Russia-24”).

At the beginning of his journalistic career, he supported President Boris Yeltsin and his reforms, and spoke of his views as “bourgeois-liberal”. Later, he positioned himself as a conservative and supported Vladimir Putin. He spoke in support of the war against Ukraine, in one of his last publications he spoke of the need to “force Ukraine to capitulate.”