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The former head of Chuvashia Michael Ignatieff hospitalized in serious condition in St.-Petersburg with two-sided pneumonia. Earlier it became known that he filed a lawsuit in the Supreme court on the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.

According to “Kommersant”, the former head of the Republic went to the hospital because of the high percentage of lung lesions. Now he is on the machine Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo), which saturates the blood with oxygen.

In January of this year, the head of Chuvashia in 2010, Ignatiev was dismissed by Putin in the phrase “in connection with loss of trust”. The occasion was the trick of the head of the region, when it is at an official ceremony raised the keys to the new fire truck and forced to jump over them rescuers.

An attempt to bring the episode to a “friendly joke” failed: the official was expelled from the “United Russia”, and then sacked.

On the eve it became known that Ignatieff has filed a lawsuit against Putin, disputing his decision to resign.