Russia's Putin joins mourners to pay respects to ex-classmate and top judge


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  • Thursday, 24 Jul 2025

SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a farewell ceremony for Russian Supreme Court Chief Justice Irina Podnosova at the Central Clinical Hospital of the Russian Presidential Administration in Moscow, Russia July 24, 2025. Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin joined mourners on Thursday to say farewell to his former classmate Irina Podnosova, the head of Russia's Supreme Court, who died earlier this week aged 71.

Putin looked sad and pensive as he sat alongside members of Podnosova's family in a Moscow hospital where her open casket was placed on display, flanked by an honour guard, for people to pay their final respects.

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