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Mikhail lesin biography

          Mikhail Yuryevich Lesin was a Russian political figure, media executive and advisor to president Vladimir Putin.

        1. Mikhail Lesin played a decisive role in reshaping the media landscape after Vladimir Putin's accession to Russian presidency.
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        4. Mikhail Yurievich Lesin was born into a military family in the summer of and grew up in the very center of the Soviet capital.

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          The Mysterious Death of the Man Behind Putin's Media Machine

          This article was taken from The Moscow Times archive and was first published on Nov. 11, 2015.

          For a man who once shaped Russia's media sector, remarkably little is known about the last months of Mikhail Lesin's life.

          A macho, "hell-for-leather guy," who as press minister from 1999-2004 broke the hold of oligarchs on Russia's media and asserted state power over the airwaves, Lesin was found dead on Nov.

          5 in a Washington hotel, aged 57. According to relatives quoted by Russian media, he died of a heart attack.

          A year earlier, Lesin's meteoric career had suddenly ended when he abruptly quit as head of Gazprom Media, one of the country's largest state-owned media conglomerates.

          People who knew Lesin described him as a fiercely ambitious man, with the nickname "bulldozer." As head of Gazprom Media from 2013 to early 2015, he gave the impression of someone who felt "all-powerful,"