{"id":493435,"date":"2026-06-24T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493435\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:25:25","slug":"latvia-probes-mushroom-death-of-exiled-russian-journalist-who-revealed-putin-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/493435\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia probes mushroom death of exiled Russian journalist who revealed Putin affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Nekhoroshev was the former editor of Moskovsky Korrespondent, the newspaper that published the 2008 report, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"The front page of Moskovsky Korrespondent that in 2008 reported that Putin planned to divorce his then wife.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>The front page of Moskovsky Korrespondent that in 2008 reported that Putin planned to divorce his then wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">After the report was released the Moskovsky Korrespondent closed, which was then owned by businessman and former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Despite being regarded as knowledgeable about mushrooms, it appears Nekhoroshev may have misidentified the species, Metro UK reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">There is no evidence pointing to Putin being responsible, but many people who oppose the leader have died in suspicious circumstances, like former opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an arctic prison in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">One online commenter on the news dug up an old Russian joke:<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cA businessman died from mushroom poisoning,\u201d a man said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cBut why his face is all bruised?!\u201d asked another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWell, he didn\u2019t want to eat them,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Nekhoroshev died on June 19 in Riga, Latvia's capital, where he had lived for 11 years as a political refugee. Photo \/ Grigory Nekhoroshev\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Nekhoroshev died on June 19 in Riga, Latvia&#8217;s capital, where he had lived for 11 years as a political refugee. Photo \/ Grigory Nekhoroshev<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Fellow Russian journalist Bozhena Rynska, who is also based in Latvia, described his death as \u201cincomprehensible\u201d, Metro UK reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Nekhoroshev had labelled himself a \u201cpersonal enemy\u201d of Putin after revealing details of the Russian leader\u2019s private life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">At the time, Putin responded to the reports condemning \u201cthose who with their snotty noses and erotic fantasies prowl into others\u2019 lives\u201d, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">The Russian leader has never formally confirmed the relationship with Kabaeva, now 43, although the pair are believed to have two children together, Ivan, 11, and Vladimir, 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"NQVPqQgxO\" style=\"display:none\">Latvian authorities are yet to make any public statement on the death, with an autopsy to be carried out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nekhoroshev was the former editor of Moskovsky Korrespondent, the newspaper that published the 2008 report, the Daily Mail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62784,74,165297,634,6179,227925,17309,186220,42,5844,12710,14234,26482,43,1118,25292,74256,2572,29538,8217,247163,520,17182,12860,8221,9095,40,38,41,39,8216,1299,102],"class_list":["post-493435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-affair","tag-after","tag-consuming","tag-death","tag-died","tag-exiled","tag-exposed","tag-gymnast","tag-headlines","tag-journalist","tag-latvia","tag-mushroom","tag-mushrooms","tag-news","tag-of","tag-olympic","tag-poisonous","tag-president","tag-probes","tag-putin","tag-putins","tag-relationship","tag-reportedly","tag-revealed","tag-russian","tag-secret","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-vladimir","tag-who","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}