Overview
- The VTB United League announced Ivanov’s death on Friday, June 26, and Japanese outlets reported the news via a Kyodo News Moscow dispatch.
- Ivanov was 73 and had served as head of the presidential administration and as first deputy prime minister under Vladimir Putin.
- Initial reports give no cause of death and no formal statement from the Russian government has been published so far.
- Earlier this year Ivanov stepped down from a presidential special representative post and observers noted health issues at the time.
- A former KGB officer, Ivanov was long seen as a central Kremlin insider and his passing removes a senior, experienced figure from Russia’s political circle.