Overview
- His death was confirmed by his daughter-in-law, Svetlana, who said he died on the morning of February 13.
- She said the medical cause has not been certified and is presumed to be heart failure.
- A farewell is scheduled for February 17 at the Odintsovo morgue, followed by cremation and burial of his ashes in Laikovo in the Moscow region.
- Active in the 1960s dissident movement, he criticized Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party in 1969, and was later reinstated and elected a people's deputy in 1989.
- He wrote more than 50 books, including biographies of Vladimir Putin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, and Yuri Andropov.