The son of Dmitry Gudkov committed suicide
Ivan Gudkov, the son of oppositionist Dmitry Gudkov and his first wife, Sophia Kapkova, committed suicide. Ksenia Sobchak said that he reported on the difficulties of emigration
The eldest son of oppositionist Dmitry Gudkov (inscribed in the register of foreign agents) Ivan committed suicide. Gudkov himself reported this.
Gudkov said that his son “was struggling with serious internal problems.”.
Ivan left a suicide text in which he told about the inability to overcome the difficulties of emigration, said Ksenia Sobchak.
Ivan was born in the first marriage of Dmitry Gudkov with a journalist, the founder of the Moscow Center for Documentary Film Sofia Kapkova. The couple also have a daughter, Anastasia. In his second marriage, the politician had another son, Alexander.
Dmitry Gudkov, a former State Duma deputy of the sixth convocation, was elected from the “Fair Russia”, later was expelled from the party. He left Russia in 2021, in February 2023, the Ministry of Justice entered him in the register of foreign agents. Later, Gudkov was arrested in absentia and put on the international wanted list. In August 2024, the Khoroshevsky court of Moscow sentenced him in absentia to eight years in prison in the case of fakes about the army. The reason was a video published in April 2022.
