“On the evening of August 9, after the illness, Anna Afanasyeva, the head of the Kommersant newspaper’s publication group, died,” the statement said.

Afanasyeva worked in a publishing house since 1993.

At the end of July, journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza died, died in his 60th year.

The SJR expressed their condolences to the family of the journalist, calling him a bright and talented person.