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MOSCOW, June 20 TV presenter Otar Kushanashvili was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in the abdominal cavity, an operation is now underway, said Kushanashvili’s friend, columnist, music critic Vladimir Polupanov.
Earlier, Kushanashvili's director Anton Shestak reported that he was hospitalized, now he is in intensive care, the diagnosis is still unknown.
«Yes. I'm in touch, I'm his close friend, I'm in touch with my sister, my wife him, so I don’t get information from outside sources, I do it directly. Now we are undergoing an operation on the abdominal cavity. They found a tumor, I don’t know for sure, it was the pancreas or another organ, there was a suspicion of pancreatitis, but they found a tumor,” the agency’s interlocutor said, responding. to the question of whether Kushanashvili was really diagnosed with a cancerous tumor.