• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • About Towleroad
  • Towleroad on Social Media
  • Privacy Policy

Towleroad Gay News

Gay Blog Towleroad: More than gay news | gay men

  • Travel
  • Sports
  • Law/Justice
  • Celebrities
  • Republicans
  • Madonna
  • Books
  • Men
  • Trans Rights
  • Royals
  • Monkeypox
  • Modern Family’s Julie Bowen Crushing On Harry Styles; Reveals She Was Once In Love With A Gay Woman, “but she didn’t love me back”
  • Mean Girls musical movie will have a ‘fresher palette’
  • Jennifer Coolidge went to the wedding of Billie Eilish’s parents

Vladimir Putin’s Former KGB Mentor DIES Of Mysterious Illness After Criticizing Embattled Russian Leader

Towleroad November 11, 2022 Leave a Comment

Published by
Radar Online
653665 origin 1
Mega

Vladimir Putin’s former KGB mentor-turned-critic has reportedly died of a “mysterious” and “serious” illness after denouncing the embattled Russian leader, RadarOnline.com has learned.

72-year-old Viktor Cherkesov passed away on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Russia, and although no official cause of death has been released, the Russian media has reported the former KGB member died of a “serious illness.”

653665 653665 origin 1 1
Mega

That is the surprising revelation made by Alexander Khinstein, who serves as the chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy and who published a Telegram post confirming Cherkesov’s passing earlier this week.

“Victor Vasilyevich was a wonderful person and a true statesman,” Khinstein wrote. “Eternal memory to him!”

According the New York Post, Cherkesov served as the former chief of the now-defunct State Drug Control Service. He was also the presidential envoy to the Russia’s Northwestern Federal District.

The late 72-year-old first served as a KGB agent in St. Petersburg in the 1970s. He then rose to become head of the Russian city’s FSB branch before, two decades later, becoming director of the FSB and serving as Putin’s second in command in 1998.

653665 653665 origin 1 2
Mega

But Cherkesov and Putin’s professional relationship reportedly took a turn for the worse in 2006 after the Russian leader’s second in command led a corruption investigation into some of the Kremlin’s highest officials.

Cherkesov then penned an op-ed piece about a “secret turf war” being waged by other top Kremlin officials – an op-ed piece Putin condemned and pushed the Russian president to demote and then ultimately fire the FSB chief.

“I consider it incorrect to air such problems in the media,” Putin said at the time. “And if someone acts in this manner, voicing complaints about a war of the special services, he himself must be impeccable.”

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Cherkesov is just the latest Putin ally-turned-detractor to die under mysterious circumstances since the Russian warlord ordered a “secret military operation” against Ukraine in February 2022.

653665 653665 origin 1 3
Mega

Anatoly Karpov, a 71-year-old “Putin ultra-loyalist” who criticized Russia’s war against Ukraine, was left comatose in late-October after he suffered a mysterious fall in Moscow’s parliament building.

Prior to that mysterious incident, both Putin’s top aviation scientist and the Russian despot’s “point man” passed away under peculiar circumstances.

Topics: A News, Aaon, World More Posts About: KGB, Vladimir Putin

Related Posts
  • Russian National With Ties To Vladimir Putin Becomes FIFTH PERSON To Die Under Mysterious Circumstances In Two Weeks
  • Why America’s ‘misogynist incels’ adore Vladimir Putin and ‘modern-day Russian fascism’: journalist
  • Putin uses New Year address for wartime rallying cry to Russians
  • Mean Girls musical movie will have a ‘fresher palette’

    Mean Girls musical movie will have a ‘fresher palette’

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Jeff Richmond and Tina Fey want the ‘Mean Girls’ musical movie to have a “fresher palette”. The pair are adapting their musical for the big screen and composer Jeff revealed his …Read More »
  • Jennifer Coolidge went to the wedding of Billie Eilish’s parents

    Jennifer Coolidge went to the wedding of Billie Eilish’s parents

    Published by BANG Showbiz English Jennifer Coolidge went to the wedding of Billie Eilish’s parents. The 61-year-old actress had been friends with Maggie Baird and Patrick O’Connell – who are the parents of pop star Billie, …Read More »
  • Efforts since George Floyd killing fail to stem US police violence

    Efforts since George Floyd killing fail to stem US police violence

    Published by AFP The US city of Memphis, Tennessee, on January 27, 2023, released footage of the fatal police beating of a 29-year-old Black man, Tyre Nichols Washington (AFP) – The shocking death of Tyre Nichols …Read More »
  • Pope Francis clarifies earlier comments: Homosexuality ‘not a crime’

    Pope Francis clarifies earlier comments: Homosexuality ‘not a crime’

    Published by DPA Pope Francis speaks during the general audience at the Pope Paul VI Hall at the Vatican. Michael Kappeler/dpa Pope Francis has clarified his earlier comments on homosexuality following confusion in recent days, saying: …Read More »
Previous Post: « Aaron Carter Admits He Was ‘Always Suicidal’ In His Incomplete Memoir, Which Will Be Released Posthumously
Next Post: Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as more senior executives quit »

Primary Sidebar

Adjacent News

  • Secrets about Catholic priest’s 1966 murder unearthed by reporters in Buffalo

    Secrets about Catholic priest’s 1966 murder unearthed by reporters in Buffalo

  • Booker says he’ll keep trying to pass weed legislation even with House Republicans in charge

    Booker says he’ll keep trying to pass weed legislation even with House Republicans in charge

  • Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition blacklisting sparks outcry

    Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition blacklisting sparks outcry

Good Trash: Going to Read It Somewhere, Y'know

  • ‘Gone Their Separate Ways’: Ryan Reynolds & Jake Gyllenhaal’s Pals Left Scratching Their Heads Over Bizarre Bromance Fallout 

    ‘Gone Their Separate Ways’: Ryan Reynolds & Jake Gyllenhaal’s Pals Left Scratching Their Heads Over Bizarre Bromance Fallout 

  • Steamy! Miranda Lambert Shows Off Shirtless Husband Brendan McLoughlin To Celebrate Their Anniversary

    Steamy! Miranda Lambert Shows Off Shirtless Husband Brendan McLoughlin To Celebrate Their Anniversary

  • ‘Sister Wives’ Alum Leon Brown Debuts Gender-Affirming Top Surgery Seven Months After Announcing New Pronouns

    ‘Sister Wives’ Alum Leon Brown Debuts Gender-Affirming Top Surgery Seven Months After Announcing New Pronouns

RSS Partner Links

  • Sunday Comics
  • 'The View' for the Week of January 30 - 4 Guest Stars Revealed
  • Olivia Wilde And Jason Sudeikis Publicly Hug After Getting Messy During Their Custody Fight
  • Novak Djokovic defeats Stefan Tsitsipas to win 10th Australian Open and 22nd grand slam overall
  • The Telegraph published a photo to ‘exonerate’ Prince Andrew from rape, trafficking
  • Prince William & Kate are getting cooked for their foodbank poverty tourism
  • Jim Jordan Says New Laws Can't 'Stop That Evil' After Tyre Nichols' Death

Most Recent

  • Modern Family’s Julie Bowen Crushing On Harry Styles; Reveals She Was Once In Love With A Gay Woman, “but she didn’t love me back”

    Modern Family’s Julie Bowen Crushing On Harry Styles; Reveals She Was Once In Love With A Gay Woman, “but she didn’t love me back”

  • Mean Girls musical movie will have a ‘fresher palette’

    Mean Girls musical movie will have a ‘fresher palette’

  • Jennifer Coolidge went to the wedding of Billie Eilish’s parents

    Jennifer Coolidge went to the wedding of Billie Eilish’s parents

  • Efforts since George Floyd killing fail to stem US police violence

    Efforts since George Floyd killing fail to stem US police violence

  • Pope Francis clarifies earlier comments: Homosexuality ‘not a crime’

    Pope Francis clarifies earlier comments: Homosexuality ‘not a crime’

  • Rick Astley: I wasn’t cut out to be a pop star

    Rick Astley: I wasn’t cut out to be a pop star

  • Universal Pictures Loses Over $10 Million By Scrapping Madonna’s Biopic: Source

    Universal Pictures Loses Over $10 Million By Scrapping Madonna’s Biopic: Source

  • Spice Girls to reunite for King Charles’ coronation

    Spice Girls to reunite for King Charles’ coronation

Most Commented

Social

Twitter @tlrd | Facebook | Instagram @tlrd

Footer

Copyright © 2023 · Log in

×