“The governor was already leaving the meeting, he had just left the cultural center when a man ran up and stabbed the governor. Andrei Vladimirovich was conscious, he walked to the car himself, and quickly got to the hospital,” RIA Novosti quotes her.

Chibis previously published a video on his Telegram after an operation that doctors performed amid an attempt on the politician’s life.

Russia's Investigative Committee said it had interrogated the governor's attacker.

As it turned out, he was previously prosecuted under Art. 115 of the Criminal Code of Russia for causing minor bodily harm.