{"id":1410911,"date":"2026-06-26T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/one-of-putins-closest-associates-and-former-defense-minister-sergei-ivanov-has-died-in-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:52:11","slug":"one-of-putins-closest-associates-and-former-defense-minister-sergei-ivanov-has-died-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/one-of-putins-closest-associates-and-former-defense-minister-sergei-ivanov-has-died-in-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"One of Putin&#8217;s closest associates and former Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has died in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Russian Defense Minister, former head of the Russian presidential administration, and one of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s closest associates, Sergei Ivanov, has died at the age of 74. The causes of his death are not yet known.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by Russian media.<\/p>\n<p> Sergei Ivanov was a member of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s inner circle. Their acquaintance began in the mid-1970s during their joint service in the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR in Leningrad.<\/p>\n<p> After Putin became head of the FSB in 1998, he appointed Ivanov as his first deputy. Ivanov went on to hold a number of key positions in the Russian government, including:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Minister of Defense of Russia in 2001-2007;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Deputy Prime Minister;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation in 2011-2016;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Ecology and Transport.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> Until 2008, Ivanov was considered one of the main contenders to succeed Vladimir Putin, but in the end, Dmitry Medvedev became the president of Russia.<\/p>\n<p> Ivanov had been in the political shadows in recent years, working as the president&#8217;s special representative for ecology and transport. In February 2026, Vladimir Putin dismissed him from this position and expelled him from the Russian Security Council.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Russian Defense Minister, former head of the Russian presidential administration, and one of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s closest associates, Sergei Ivanov, has died at the age of 74. The causes of his death are not yet known. This is reported by Russian media. Sergei Ivanov was a member of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s inner circle. Their acquaintance began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1410905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1410911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}