MOSCOW—Russian Emergencies Minister Yevgeny Zinichev died during a training exercise in the Arctic on Wednesday, RIA news agency cited the ministry as saying. The 55-year-old Zinichev, who had headed the high-profile emergencies ministry since 2018, died while saving someone’s life, RIA 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. Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Russia’s RT television channel, said Zinichev had been standing on a ledge with a cameraman who slipped and fell into some water. “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 wrote on Twitter. The cameraman also died, Simonyan added. Zinichev was in the Arctic to oversee …
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