INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
2022 was defined by Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine, with the resulting violence leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of
soldiers and civilians.But some major Russian public figures also passed away in 2022, including the last leader of the Soviet Union,
newsworthy deaths from 2022, including men and women whose deaths were a direct result of the fighting in UkraineThe list features at least
Moskva News AgencyA flamboyant demagogue and founder of Russia's ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), Vladimir Zhirivosky died
imminent invasion of Ukraine when speaking in Russia's parliament at the end of 2021, months before his death."This will not be a peaceful
DuginaAnton Velikzhanin / Moscow 24 / Moskva News AgencyThe daughter of far-right ideologue Aleksandr Dugin, 29-year-old Darya Dugina was
killed in August when a bomb planted under her Toyota Land Cruiser detonated as she returned home from a nationalist festival in the Moscow
officials said in October that Kyiv was behind the car bombing, though stopped short of saying whether the intended target had been Dugina
Yakov Rezantsev.Krasnodar Krai AdministrationThe commander of Russia's 49th Combined Arms Army, Yakov Rezantsev is reportedly the
River in the south-eastern region of Russia's Altai Krai, Rezantsev was apparently killed near the Chernobaivka airbase in southern
News AgencyThe last leader of the Soviet Union, Mihail Gorbachev died on Aug
Shushkevich.Unlike his successor, Boris Yeltsin, Gorbachev was not granted a state funeral and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not
corporations to openly call for an end to the invasion of Ukraine.Oksana Baulina Oksana BaulinaEvgeny Feldman (CC BY-SA 4.0)Russian
journalist Oksana Baulina was killed in Kyiv in March by a Russian missile strike while reporting for independent media publication The
YouTube.comFormer prison inmate Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, died in November when he was bludgeoned to death in an apparent revenge killing carried
murder in a Russian jail, Nuzhin was one of thousands of prisoners promised early release under a scheme to bolster Russian troop
TASSRecord-breaking Soviet cosmonaut Valery Polyakov died on Sept
which he spent a total of 678 days and 16 hours in orbit.
