TASS informs about this with reference to his colleague Ruben Markarian.
“Just yesterday we corresponded.
Valery said that he is in a hospital in the Tambov region, where COVID-19 is “winning”, ”he said.
According to Markarian, “today the news came that he had died”.
In July, it was reported that the former TV presenter of the Vremya program, Yuri Petrov, died at the age of 75.