The key facts

  • Producer Sergey Dvortsov put forward the version that a “curse unto death” was the cause of critic Sergey Sosedov's death
  • Sosedov fell on a staircase at a hotel in Neryungri in September, where he had come for a competition, and died
  • Dvortsov referred to surveillance camera footage published by Andrey Malakhov

A new version of the critic's death

Producer Sergey Dvortsov has suggested that the death of music critic and journalist Sergey Sosedov may have been linked to a magical influence. According to him, alongside other versions there is a hypothesis that a curse was placed on Sosedov, aimed at silencing him and making him disappear from public view. Dvortsov said this in a comment to Channel Five, as reported by Gazeta.Ru.

What is known about the incident

“A third version of his death can be considered here. He was helped. Helped in a specifically magical way. That is, it is a banal curse, a curse unto death, so that he would fall silent, so that he would no longer be seen or heard anywhere,” the producer suggested. In support of his version, he referred to surveillance camera footagepublished by TV host Andrey Malakhov: according to Dvortsov, the video shows a person slowly climbing the stairs and then falling. “He barely climbs up and falls down on the third step,” he noted.

Circumstances of the fall

The incident occurred in September in Neryungri, where Sosedov had come for a competition. At the hotel, he stumbled and fell on the stairs. Medics fought for his life but were unable to save the critic. Earlier, Sosedov's close friendaccording to Gazeta.Ru, cited a different cause of his fall at the Neryungri hotel — thus, the circumstances of the incident are still being explained in different ways, and Dvortsov's version remains his personal assumption, not confirmed by official findings.