Baku/19.06.22/Turan: On June 19, the former Secretary of State and First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation, 76-year-old Gennady Burbulis, died in Baku on the afternoon.
As it became known to Turan from an informed source, death occurred at the moment when Burbulis was in a sauna in one of the hotels in the capital of Azerbaijan.
Burbulis arrived in Baku to participate in an international forum.
An official statement on the cause of death has not yet been made.
* Gennady Eduardovich Burbulis - Soviet and Russian statesman and politician. One of the closest associates of Boris Yeltsin at the beginning of his presidency. In 1991-1992, he served as State Secretary and First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia.-0-
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