Pyotr Kucherenko, Russia's deputy minister of higher education, is reported to have died on a flight. His family believes he died of heart problems, but an autopsy is still pending.
Journalist Roman Super is said to have said he had been taking sedatives out of fear for a long time. The mysterious deaths among Russia's elite are piling up, observed by the opposition and the international press. The Ukraine war is referred to in Russia as a "military special operation"