Russian journalist found dead from ‘mushroom poisoning’ after revealing Putin’s secret relationship

Bekhoroshev was the editor of Moskovsky Korrespondent (Picture: E2W)

A ‘personal enemy’ of Vladimir Putin, who first revealed the dictator’s relationship with Olympic gymnast Alina Kabaeva, has died suddenly.

Grigory Nekhoroshev, 69, was editor-in-chief of a Russian newspaper which reported in 2008 that the Russian ruler planned to divorce his wife, Lyudmila Putina, and wed Kabaeva instead.

Nekhoroshev died in the Latvian capital Riga, where he had lived in exile as a political refugee for 11 years.

Friends say he passed away at home in the Baltic NATO state after eating mushrooms he found in the yard of his home.

Though he was a mushroom aficionado, the mushrooms he collected turned out to be poisonous.

His friends described Nekhoroshev as having bee...