“After a long illness, our colleague, a well-known journalist and TV presenter Anastasia Anisimova, passed away,” the information policy department of the Sverdlovsk region said in a statement.

Anisimova was the host of the programs "Cabinet of Ministers", "Territory of Law", "Fourth Power" and others.

She has been working on the OTV channel since 2001.

On July 5, the former TV presenter of the Vremya program, Yuri Petrov, died at the age of 75.