Egor Prosvirnin. A frame from the CzarTalks program. Archive photo MOSCOW, January 4 The pre-investigation check after the death of the journalist, founder of the Sputnik and Pogrom magazine Yegor Prosvirnin has not yet been completed; «Tsarskoe Television» Svyatoslav Pavlov before the funeral of the journalist. The funeral of Prosvirnin takes place on Tuesday at the Troyekurovsky cemetery. Relatives, colleagues and readers came to say goodbye to the journalist. «There are no new circumstances (they did not appear — ed.). Regarding the initiation of a criminal case, a pre-investigation check is being carried out at this stage,» Pavlov said, answering a question from a RIA Novosti correspondent. 
«Sputnik and the pogrom» called Prosvirnin's death an accident He added that the investigation communicates with the family and relatives of the deceased through a lawyer. Investigators have not yet informed Prosvirnin's relatives about the journalist's death that is fundamentally new. We will have our own independent expert, he will conduct it. We will see how the official examination, from the investigation, will differ from ours. I hope it will not, «Pavlov added. The body of 35-year-old Prosvirnin was found on December 27 under the windows of a building in the center of Moscow — presumably he committed suicide. The magazine insists that Prosvirnin's death was an accident, “there was no question of any suicide.” In July 2017, Roskomnadzor, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, blocked a number of large information resources of nationalist and extremist content, including the Sputnik and Pogrom website.
