Misharin decided to abandon the flasher and escort vehicles

The Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin decided to abandon the flashing lights on his service car and the traffic police escort, the Echo of Moscow reports. Misharin made this decision after the accident, which he got on December 1. According to Misharin, flashing lights and escort "still do not provide the necessary safety, but for the rest they create only inconvenience." The governor went to work on Monday after a two -month treatment.

On January 18, the Kremlin denied the information that the head of the Sverdlovsk region, Alexander Misharin, will be dismissed "This is not true. The governor did not resign. The question of his resignation is not raised," said presidential spokesman Natalya Timakova.

Information about the upcoming resignation appeared on the website of Uralinformburo. The publication referred to a source in the State Duma. "The head of the Sverdlovsk region wrote a statement with a request to dismiss him for health reasons," the publication said.

"It is expected that the regional prime minister Anatoly Gredin will act until the fall. In October 2012, the new head of the Sverdlovsk region will be elected popularly," said Uralinformburo. The General Council of United Russia did not confirm information about the resignation. Even earlier, the resignation of the governor was denied by the deputy authorized representative of the president in the Ural Federal District Sergey Smetanyuk. "I am not going to refute or comment on rumors. There are rumors that to pay attention to them," Smetanyuk said.

In early December, Misharin crashed in a car accident on his Mercedes, after which he was treated in Germany. The accident occurred on the evening of December 1. Three cars collided on the Yekaterinburg-Serov highway: the Governor, Volga-Siber and Skoda. As a result, the Volga driver Yuri Druzhinin, Misharin and his driver were hospitalized. At night, the governor underwent surgery, and on Friday he was loaded into a medical dream in Friday. The driver of Misharin also survived the operation, his condition was evaluated as extremely difficult.

On the fact of the accident, a criminal case was instituted under part 3 of article 264 of the Criminal Code ("Violation of the rules of the road that entailed the death of a person by negligence"). According to the investigation, the accident could provoke adverse weather conditions, poor quality of the road surface or the technical malfunction of the car. Eyewitnesses claimed that at the time of the accident the governor’s car was on the oncoming lane, but the investigation proceeds from the fact that Mercedes did not cross the marking line.

On January 17, President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed the Volgograd governor Anatoly Brovko. This is the second resignation for the week of the head of the region, where in the parliamentary elections, United Russia showed a low result. The decree says that Brovko resigned of his own free will. In the elections to the State Duma, United Russia scored about 35 percent of the vote in the Volgograd region, showing one of the lowest results in Russia.

On December 13, Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the early termination of powers of the governor of the Arkhangelsk region Ilya Mikhalchuk. As noted in the decree, Mikhalchuk, who headed the Arkhangelsk region since March 2008, was dismissed of his own free will. The temporarily acting governor was appointed Igor Orlov.