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Deputies and senators immediately meet to discuss the candidacy of the next Russian ambassador to Ukraine. The State Duma is due to different graphics approve the candidacy will not profile Committee on Foreign Affairs
As a matter of urgency
The deputies and senators of the international committees of both houses of parliament on Thursday were instructed to urgently come to Moscow on Friday to take part in meetings to discuss candidates for the post of Russian ambassador to Ukraine. This RBC told a few parliamentarians.
After post became vacant after President Vladimir Putin on Thursday dismissed Mikhail Zurabov appointed in 2009. Chargé d’affaires was Sergei Toropov.
As stated previously the chairman of the State Duma CIS affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, etc. To the approval of the new ambassador must be approved by relevant committees of both houses of . He also expressed doubt that the candidacy will be matched up to the Duma elections in September.
The parties in the State Duma and the Federation Council, told RBC that Thursday afternoon committee leadership led them out of the region. Discussed will be the candidacy of a new ambassador to Ukraine, confirmed the four companions.
According to the procedure, the ambassador nominated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then it is treated in the presence of the candidate at a meeting of the State Duma profile committee.
To visit Ambassador of the consent (agrément) host. The Ukrainian side has not received from the Russian request for agrement, the director of the Department of Policy and Communications, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Alexei Makeyev agency “Interfax-Ukraine».
The specialized for the appointment of the next ambassador to Ukraine in the State Duma is on CIS Affairs Committee . However, due to the fact that its chairman Leonid Slutsky, a delegation of French parliamentarians will stay in the Crimea, to consider the candidacy of an international committee headed by Alexei Pushkov, told RBC interlocutors. Pushkov representative at RBC request did not answer.
Earlier, RBC sources close to the Kremlin, said that after the Ukraine can become the current envoy to the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich, who comes from the security forces. Babic himself refused to comment RBC, referring to employment. Interviewees RBC deputies refused to name candidate, according to them, the names of nominees they find out at the meeting.
The problem Zurabov
The main claim to the Russian Embassy to Ukraine on the part of community members and politicians were shortcomings Embassy prior to and during euromaidan events that began in November 2013.
«For the period of his work had a very difficult and unprecedented events in Ukraine and in terms of our bilateral relationship. It was a very difficult mission “, – commented on the work Zurabov president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Ambassador several times asked to resign, said Peskov. “His work is very highly appreciated in the Kremlin, including the president,” – said Sands
Job in Kiev Mikhail Zurabov began uneasy.. In Moscow, the parliamentary opposition has criticized his appointment as Kiev did not take a long time successor Viktor Chernomyrdin. The deputy of the Communist Party Ivan Melnikov said then that it was necessary to appoint a professional, and Zurabov “not proved that the search for compromise are really not his forte.” Before that Zurabov was engaged in the monetization of benefits, which caused protests across the country.
However, profile committees of the State Duma and the Federation Council approved his appointment in June 2009, the agrement on the arrival of a new ambassador to Kiev was received from the president’s administration Victor Yushchenko in August, but to present his credentials to Zurabov was able only in January next, 2010. He took them not to President Yushchenko, whose relations with Moscow have been strained, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Petro Poroshenko.
In February of that year, Viktor Yanukovych, in which the relations between Ukraine and Russia for several years have improved, was elected president in Ukraine : has been extended a contract for the stationing of the Black Sea fleet in Crimea, Kyiv received a discount on gas, actively discussed the possibility of Ukraine joining the Customs Union of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
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However, subsequent events have provoked criticism of supporters of the pro-Russian course of Ukraine, demanding from the embassy to work more actively and on the part of Moscow politicians. In December 2013, when Viktor Yanukovych was still president, and two months on Maidan were protests, the head of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma Gennady Zyuganov criticized the ambassador for the lack of effective work. He is “not any dispatches sent” his “no one never sees or hears.” Agrees with him was the leader of “Fair Russia” Sergei Mironov: “For some reason, the Russian ambassador’s position is not heard»
However, Zurabov stayed to work in Kiev, after serving in Moscow for consultation only for the period from February to June 2014. year after the flight of President Yanukovych to Russia. In June 2014 he began to represent Russia at the talks of the Trilateral contact group in Minsk and was chief negotiator until April 2015, when he was replaced by Azamat Kulmuhametov.
Zurabov ambassador was not visible from the very beginning of its work, but in general, Russian embassy was one of the most active, staff actively participated in expert events, says Sergey licorice, deputy director of the Ukrainian Institute of world politics.
Zurabov was manager of contacts between the presidents of Ukraine and Russia, his friendship with Poroshenko was extremely important, these contacts took care of a major war, certain Ukrainian political analyst Vadim Karasev. In recent years, diplomatic relations between the countries were suspended, Zurabov could not conduct an open diplomacy, diplomacy, and his work became a hybrid, probably more than the Kremlin did not need such a diplomacy, but we need more clear and unambiguous relationships, says Karasev.
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