MOSCOW, December 31. /TASS/. In 2025, a great many well-known politicians, statesmen, scientists and cultural figures passed away.
January 7. French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far-right National Front, died in Paris at the age of 96.
April 21. Pope Francis died in the Vatican at the age of 88.
May 11. Viktor Gerashchenko, the Chairman of the State Bank of the USSR, then Governor of the Bank of Russia during much of the Perestroika and post-Perestroika periods, died in Moscow at the age of 87.
July 7. Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit committed a suicide in the Odintsovo district near Moscow at the age of 53.
