The Publisher Nigeria 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.
Top Politician 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.
He is thought to have once been part of President Vladimir Putin’s security detail.
(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; Writing by Alexander Marrow/Tom Balmforth; Editing by Catherine Evans)
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