Information about the death of the writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature Svetlana Aleksievich was distributed by an Italian journalist through a fake account created in the name of French Minister of Culture Francoise Nissen.

This is reported by Life.

As it became known, the account was created by Tommasso Debenedetti. The news of Alexievich's death was published in French and English.

As reported by the "Observer", on May 18, the news appeared on the network that the writer, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, Svetlana Aleksievich. Later Alexeyevich denied it herself.

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