{"id":8183,"date":"2020-06-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=8183"},"modified":"2020-06-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=8183","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Ignatyev, politician"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ignatyev \u2011 a Chuvash politician who served as the Head of the Chuvash Republic, a position that was known as the President of the Chuvash Republic until 2011 – died of Covid-19 on 18 June 2020.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

On 29 January 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Ignatyev and replaced him with Oleg Nikolayev as acting head. This followed a series of scandals in which Ignatyev reportedly humiliated an emergency service worker by dangling keys to a fire truck above them, forcing them to jump to retrieve them, and calling for journalists in the republic to be "wiped out".<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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Mikhail Vasilyevich Ignatyev \u2011 a Chuvash politician who served as the Head of the Chuvash Republic, a position that was known as the President of the Chuvash Republic until 2011 – died of Covid-19 on 18 June 2020. 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