‘DPR Head of State’ sacks ‘cabinet’, appoints ex-Russia official as ‘PM’

Denis Pushilin, head of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic”, has sacked the self-proclaimed state’s government, including Aleksandr Ananchenko, the “prime minister,” says TASS.

Pushilin says the “DPR government” had to be changed in order to “pep up the integration process.” There is evidence, however, that the “cabinet” was simply not efficient enough, Vedomosti cites one of its sources. Some of the “ministers” will save their positions, Pushilin says.

Vitaly Hotsenko, formerly a major official at Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade, was appointed the “prime minister.” Horsenko was born in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk (today known as Dnipro) and studied at the Moscow State University. Hotsenko has been often considered a promising politician in recent years.