“February 15 did not become an amazing person, a famous politician and businessman Mikhail Yuryev ... We all lost a big, talented person, a patriot of our fatherland,” the message on the site kp.ru says.

It is noted that in recent years, Yuriev was seriously ill.

Since 2017, Yuriev, along with journalist Mikhail Leontyev, has been running the Glavtema program on Komsomolskaya Pravda radio.

Earlier it was reported that the last chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Anatoly Lukyanov, died at the age of 88 years.