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Death of Opera Singer Who Sang 'Dark Eyes' to Kim Jong-Un Reinvestigated
April 17, 2026
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The Investigative Committee of Russia has opened a criminal case into the death of well-known opera singer Yevgeny Kungurov, who gained attention for performing the romance Dark Eyes” in Vladivostok before North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, The Kommersant reports. Initially, investigators considered the death to be a suicide. The 40-year-old soloist of the Kaliningrad Musical Theatre was found without signs of life on April 8, 2024, beneath the windows of a residential building on Zoologicheskaya Street in Moscow, where he had been renting an apartment on the ninth floor with his wife.
However, the singer's father, Viktor Kungurov, a retired military officer from the Sverdlovsk region, insisted on a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy. He is convinced that his son was killed and that the suicide was staged to conceal the crime.
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