Anatoly Karpov, 71, who is known as a Putin loyalist but had voiced opposition to the war in Ukraine is in a coma at a hospital in Moscow after suffering serious head injuries at the weekend.
Nikolay Petrunin, 47, dubbed the Gas wonderkid , allegedly died from complications from Covid after being in a coma for a month, although this has not been confirmed.
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Sergey Maslov, 42, an independent-minded Russian judge who oversaw case involving the country s elite was reportedly among those killed in the Crimea Bridge attack last week.