Top Minister has died during a training exercise.
Newsonline reports that Russia’s Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev died during a training exercise in the Arctic, the RIA news agency cited the ministry as saying on Wednesday.
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Top Minister Dies During Training Exercise
The 55-year-old official, who had headed the high-profile emergencies ministry since 2018, died while saving someone’s life, it said without providing further details.
“… Zinichev died tragically while performing his official duties during inter-departmental drills to prevent crisis situations in the Arctic, saving someone’s life,” RIA quoted the ministry as saying.
Zinichev was in the Arctic to oversee large-scale drills and visited the construction site of a new fire station in Norilsk, as well as a search and rescue team in the area, the ministry had said in a statement earlier on Wednesday.
Before becoming a minister, Zinichev held a number of jobs including as former deputy director of the Federal Security Service and briefly as acting regional governor of Kaliningrad.
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He is thought to have once been part of President Vladimir Putin’s security detail.
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(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Writing by Alexander Marrow/Tom Balmforth; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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