An imprisoned Russian general who oversaw the building of Vladimir Putin's £1bn Black Sea palace has died in custody, shortly after becoming eligible for parole. It is not clear exactly how 69-year-old Gennady Lopyrev died, but authorities have said he became ill on Monday before dying in the early hours of Tuesday. The general was jailed in 2017 by a military court over charges of bribe-taking and illegal possession of ammunition – which he always denied. (snip) General Gennady Zhidko, who briefly commanded the Kremlin's troops in Ukraine before being ousted for "failures" on the battlefield, is another of Putin's...