2023-05-23 20:42:00
The death of the Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of Russia, Pyotr Kucherenkoon May 20 generated a wave of speculation around the Kremlinsince he was one of the few Russian officials who had privately criticized the invasion of Ukraine Started in February of last year.
According to what was reported this Monday by the press service of the portfolio, the vice minister «got sick on the plane in which the Russian delegation was returning from a business trip to Cuba». In that document, it was clarified that although the aircraft landed in the city of Mineralnye Vody for him to receive care, the doctors «they failed to save» to the official.
Kucherenko’s family linked his death to a chronic heart conditionbut the body is expected to undergo an autopsy this Wednesday, to obtain more information about the cause of death.
The deputy minister who died this Saturday, according to official information from the Russian government, I was 46 years old and had assumed office in March 2020 and as Secretary of State in June 2021. For his performance in the Kremlin, received the medal of the Order of Merit by the degree of Homeland II.
His death is the last among high-profile Russians since the invasion of Ukraine. Last month, the head of the energy sector Igor Shkurko was found dead in his cellafter being accused of accepting a bribe.
Kucherenko had called the invasion of Ukraine “fascist”
In this context, the death of the official was related by some journalistic versions with his critical gazeprivately, to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which started a conflict that has been going on for more than a year.
Even the independent journalist Roman Super assured, after the announcement of the death of Kucherenko, of whom he was a friend, that he had spoken in private about his inability to escape Russiaafter what he called the «fascist invasion” from Ukraine.
Through Telegram, El Super declared that it had maintained contact with the deputy minister days before he left Russia for security reasons, after Moscow’s advance on a large part of Ukrainian territory.
Super affirmed that the vice minister he had told her to go and save her family. “Within a year you will not recognize Russia. Go away and do the right thing,” the Kremlin official would have asked him at the time.
When the journalist asked him if he was planning to leave, Kucherenko responded very emphatically: “It is no longer possible. They take away our passports. And there is no world in which the Russian deputy minister is happy after this fascist invasion«.
With information from Argentine News
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