President Putin prematurely dismissed the governor of the Kaliningrad region – RBC

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President Putin prematurely dismissed the governor of the Kaliningrad region

President Putin to terminate the powers of the governor of the Kaliningrad Region Nikolai Tsukanov and I appointed him as acting head of the region – for the second time in a month. The first decree on the resignation of the governor of Kaliningrad published on the Kremlin website on June 10. But the next day, presidential spokesman Peskov said: this is a technical error, and no one fired Tsukanov. For information removed. But the second time the decree is clearly not appeared by mistake. I note that the departure of the governors to resign, and the appointment of the acting – a practice quite common. Often it concerns the heads of regions going to early elections, or those involved in planning campaigns when their term of office expires before the voting day. However, the powers Tsukanov end 15 days after the election, but, according to him, the state-legal department of the president decided: it is too small gap. In an interview Gazete.Ru ex-governor said the decree shows the support of the president. I should add that in May alone, Vladimir Putin sacked five governors.