Russia - Former governor suing Putin dies for Covid-19

Mikhail Ignatiev - former governor of Chuvashia, the first governor ever to challenge a layoff decree signed by Vladimir Putin in court - died of Covid-19. You look at coincidences, it comes to say. To reveal this, after a somewhat strange course of the disease, are well-informed officials mentioned by the magazine Meduza.
    Ignatiev, in fact, had been hospitalized (apparently) in the hospital in early May, in St. Petersburg, with bilateral pneumonia and had ended up in intensive care. The complaint against his dismissal, decided by Putin last January due to the presidential "loss of confidence", was filed with the Russian Supreme Court on May 20 and the court was due to debate the case on June 30. But of course, dasvidanja. Ignatiev had become governor of Chuvashia in 2010, after eight years of service as agriculture minister of the Autonomous Republic, which is located in the center of European Russia, in the Volga plateau.
    The former governor was known to be a somewhat over the top character, proud of his Chuvashian identity, so much so that he used the local language (and not Russian, which he spoke badly) in official speeches. A way of doing that the Kremlin did not like, which soon beat him. Ignatiev soon 'straightened up', showing himself a loyal Tsar. But he never really loved him. In January, in the wake of two consecutive scandals, the dreaded presidential tread took place for him - first he had declared that journalists incensing the West had to be "killed" and then he was resumed when, during a handover ceremony of the new means to the firefighters, he had jumped a fireman to get the keys of the truck.
    Ignatiev, after his dismissal, had remained silent but had never stopped fighting to see what he thought was right: the person exposed to the Supreme Court left everyone stunned. "Even his opponents now admit: yes, he was one with the balls," Alexey Navalny's local coordinator, Semyon Kochkin, confided to Meduza.