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Minister dies trying to save man during Arctic exercise, says Russia

September 8, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 8, 2021

By Tom Balmforth and Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian government minister who once served in President Vladimir Putin’s security detail died in the Arctic on Wednesday while trying to save the life of a film director who fell into a river, his ministry said.

Yevgeny Zinichev, 55, a close Putin ally who had headed the high-profile emergencies ministry since 2018, was in the remote city of Norilsk to oversee large-scale training exercises in the region.

He is one of a handful of prominent politicians who began their careers in the security services, a similar career path to the one taken by Putin, himself a former KGB spy.

“This is an irreparable personal loss for me,” Putin said in a telegram of condolence published by the Kremlin. “We had worked together for many years.”

The Emergencies Ministry said in a statement Zinichev had died while trying to save filmmaker Alexander Melnik who had travelled to Norilsk to make a documentary about the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route.

It said Melnik had slipped on a wet rock and fallen.

“Yevgeny tried to grab Alexander and jumped after him, but unfortunately, they both died after falling from a high cliff into a mountain river,” it said.

NO TIME TO THINK

Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia’s state-run RT television channel, commented separately on Twitter.

“There were a fair number of witnesses – no one even had time to think about what had happened when Zinichev threw himself into the water for the fallen person and crashed into a protruding rock,” she said.

A biography carried by state-run media said Zinichev was born in St Petersburg and served in the state security services from 1987 to 2015 and was also involved in security for Putin.

He served as a bodyguard and personal aide to the Russian leader, according to the RBC news site. Multiple photographs of Putin at public events over several years show Zinichev standing at the president’s shoulder.

Zinichev later became deputy head of the Federal Security Service and served briefly as acting regional governor of Kaliningrad.

(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy, Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber, Gleb Stolyarov and Alexander Marrow; Writing by Tom Balmforth; Editing by Mark Heinrich, Bernadette Baum and Gareth Jones)

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