Putin dismissed the governor of the Kaliningrad region – RBC

Ex-Governor of the Kaliningrad Region Nikolai Tsukanov

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«to accept the resignation of the governor of the Kaliningrad Region Nikolai Tsukanov on their own. Assign Tsukanov Nicholas acting governor of the Kaliningrad region prior to taking office the person elected Governor of the Kaliningrad region “, – stated in the decree on the Kremlin website.

Tsukanov took over as governor of the Kaliningrad region in 2010. According to the website of the local election commission, the next presidential elections in the region will be held September 13, 2015. This term of office expired on 28 September Tsukanov.

The news of the early retirement Tsukanov has already appeared in the media in early June. June 10 on the website of the Kremlin published a presidential decree, according to which Tsukanov early terminate the powers and appointed as acting head of the region before the election. Around the same time, reports RBC received a letter from the press service of the Kremlin with the appropriate text. Later, however, the news was removed from the site, and Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov explained the appearance of the text on the website of the Kremlin decree on the resignation of the governor of the Kaliningrad region the result of a technical error.

«The Russian president did not send the governor of Kaliningrad region Nikolay Tsukanov in retirement, he announced his candidacy for the upcoming elections, and received the support of the President “- then said Peskov. He noted that Tsukanov informed the president about his desire to go to the elections, and the President supported this decision. According to the spokesman, “in general, the president said he believes that there is potential for the governor, and supported his candidacy in the upcoming elections».

In May, one week the president dismissed with the simultaneous appointment Acting head of the region of five governors. Total May prematurely retired, seven were sent to the heads of regions.

The resignation of the head of the region, followed by his appointment as Acting usually happens if the governor is going to early elections. However Tsukanov do not need to go into early retirement in order to stand for election since the end of its term coincides with the elections.