Egor Prosvirnin, founder of the Sputnik and Pogrom website, dies | Founder of Russian nationalist blog falls to his death from Moscow window

Egor Prosvirnin, founder of the Sputnik and Pogrom website, dies

Founder of Russian nationalist blog falls to his death from Moscow window

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Kaya Terry For Mailonline 

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Founder of Russian nationalist blog that supported the annexation of Ukraine but later predicted civil war and criticised Putin falls to his death from Moscow window after ‘screams and shouting’ were heard from his flat

A Russian nationalist who criticised Vladimir Putin and predicted civil war fell to his death from a fifth-floor window in Moscow.  

Yegor Prosvirnin, 35, from Vladivostok, Russia, was found naked 'under the windows of a residential building' on Tverskaya Street in the centre of Moscow on December 27. 

According to local media reports, he died before the ambulance arrived and his wife Marina Urusova later confirmed his death. 

Yegor Prosvirnin, 35, from Vladivostok, Russia, fell to his death from a fifth-floor window in Moscow on December 27

He was found naked 'under the windows of a residential building' on Tverskaya Street in the centre of Moscow on December 27

According to local media reports, he died before the ambulance arrived and his wife Marina Urusova later confirmed his death

Mr Prosvirnin

Mr Prosvirnin allegedly threw 'knife and gas canister' from the fifth floor window, whilst neighbours heard 'screaming and swearing' before he fell, according to BBC Russia.  

Russian politician Roman Yuneman told the Podyom newspaper that he met with the journalist two weeks ago and everything was 'normal'.

He said: 'I spoke to his wife. Unfortunately, that's the case. He fell out of the window, it's true, I don't know the details. I saw him about two weeks ago, he was in quite normal working order.' 

Mr Prosvirnin founded the controversial right-wing blog Sputnik and Pogrom, which supported the annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of hostilities in eastern Ukraine.

He later predicted the Russian Federation would 'collapse' and heavily criticised Putin, predicting a civil war.

The journalist previously said: 'I think that everything will collapse. Not only Novorossia will collapse, the Russian Federation will collapse.'

The website was later added to the list of blocked resources in the Russian Federation in 2017 for promoting ideas of 'ethnic and religious hatred'.

Roskomnadzo previously claimed the reason was because of 'the propaganda of the idea of ethnic and religious hatred, which creates threats to public security and encourages extremism.'

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