A major blow to Vladimir Putin as the Chair of the Russian Supreme Court, Irina Podnosova, 71, the dictator's university classmate, died on 22 July 2025, only 15 months after he appointed her.
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RUSSIA’S top judge and Putin’s former university pal has died today – just 15 months after taking the helm of the country’s Supreme Court.

Sources indicate that Irina Podnosova, aged 71, passed away following a year-long battle with cancer. However, Ukrainian commentators view this as part of a sequence of “mysterious” deaths among the Russian elite.

A major blow to Vladimir Putin as the Chair of the Russian Supreme Court, Irina Podnosova, 71, the dictator's university classmate, died on 22 July 2025, only 15 months after he appointed her.
Chair of the Russian Supreme Court, Irina Podnosova, 71, has diedCredit: East2West
A major blow to Vladimir Putin as the Chair of the Russian Supreme Court, Irina Podnosova, 71, the dictator's university classmate, died on 22 July 2025, only 15 months after he appointed her.
Podnosova was Vladimir Putin’s classmate at universityCredit: East2West

Russian media reports that Podnosova, who became the Chief Justice of Russia’s Supreme Court in April 2024 under Vladimir Putin’s endorsement, passed away in Moscow.

She succeeded long-time chief Vyacheslav Lebedev, becoming the first woman to hold the position.

Meanwhile, Oil tycoon Andrey Badalov, 62, died a few weeks ago after an incident where he fell from the 17th floor of a luxury tower block in Moscow, where he resided in a penthouse.

Suicide was recorded as the preliminary cause of death after a letter supposedly written by Badalov was reportedly found.

Badalov was vice-president of Transneft – Russia’s state oil pipeline operator and the largest such company in the world.

Putin’s transport minister Roman Starovoit, 53, also died this month from gunshot wounds on the day he was fired – a death officially declared as suicide.

In 2023, leading war official Marina Yankina, 58, a finance official at Russia’s Ministry of Defence, was found dead after falling 160ft from a 16th-floor window in St. Petersburg.

In 2022, Ravil Maganov, chairman of Lukoil, Russia’s second-largest oil company, died after plunging from a sixth-floor window at Moscow’s elite Central Clinical Hospital – also known as the Kremlin Clinic.

On the same morning, Putin – who had earlier decorated Maganov, 67, with a top honour – swept into the hospital to pay his final respects to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, who had died the same week.

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