MOSCOW (HRNW) – Russia s emergencies minister has died trying to save a filmmaker who slipped from a cliff during training exercises in the Arctic region, officials said Wednesday.
Yevgeny Zinichev, who previously served in President Vladimir Putin s security detail, “tragically died trying to save a person s life” near the city of Norilsk, the ministry said in a statement that was carried by Russian news agencies.
The ministry identified the filmmaker as 63-year-old Alexander Melnik who produced several films set in the Actic region and who also died in the incident.
Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of the state-funded news outlet RT, said the 55-year-old minister had fallen to his death trying to save the man later identified as Melnik.
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