Vyacheslav Timchenko, chairman of the Federation Council Regulations Committee, said: RIA NewsSenator of the Nizhny Novgorod region Vladimir Lebedev died of a heart attack.
According to the legislator, the senator will be buried in Nizhny Novgorod “on Saturday or Sunday by the decision of his relatives.”
Timchenko noted that Lebedev was a statesman and defended the interests of his region. He was worried about Russia, defended the interests of farmers, working in the Committee on Agricultural Policy and Environmental Management of the Federation Council.
About the death of a senator from the Nizhny Novgorod region reported Governor Gleb Nikitin.
Vladimir Lebedev died at the age of 60. As Nikitin noted, the senator held senior positions in the region at companies Nizhnovenergo and Lukoil, and also served as deputy governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, deputy federal minister of natural resources and head of the Federal Forestry Agency.
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