Baku / 08.05.18 / Turan: On the night of May 8, the editor of the Echo newspaper, Rauf Talyshinsky, died in Baku.
As the brother of the late Aydin Talyshinsky told Turan, the death was caused by heart problems and high blood pressure.
Rauf Talyshinsky was born in Baku in 1956. He was a graduate of Moscow State University and he was in journalism for about 40 years. He worked in such newspapers as Vyshka and Molodyozh Azerbaydzhana, and was the Moscow Izvestia"s correspondent in Azerbaijan.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he created the newspaper Zerkalo, which he supervised over many years. In 2001, together with a group of employees he left the newspaper and founded a new one, called Echo, which he managed to the present.
Today, Echo is one of the few Russian-language newspapers in Azerbaijan. -02B-
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