INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Irina Podnosova, the Chief Justice of Russias Supreme Court, has actually passed away at the age of 72, Russian media reported
Tuesday.Podnosova, who was selected to the courts leading post in April 2024, died of cancer, a source told the business daily Kommersant
She supposedly continued working while going through treatment.She was successful longtime Chief Justice Vyacheslav Lebedev, who passed away
in February 2024 following an extended health problem
Lebedev had led the court since 1989
Podnosova, a former classmate of President Vladimir Putin, was selected by the Federation Council on the presidents suggestion
Supreme Court chief justices serve six-year terms.A graduate of Leningrad State University in 1975, Podnosova started her judicial
profession in 1990 as a judge at the Luzhsky City Court in the Leningrad region
In 2020, she was appointed Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and led its Judicial Collegium for Economic Disputes.
