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The head of the Ministry of Emergencies Vladimir Puchkov in the coming days can be resigned. This was reported by the "New Gazeta" without indicating the sources of its information.

It is claimed that Puchkov is charged with systemic problems in the work of the ministry. In particular, dissatisfaction caused the constant underestimation of the area of ​​forest fires, the death of mountain rescuers after the disaster at the Vorkuta mine "Severnaya", the collapse of the departmental Il-76 , which flew to extinguish the forest fire in the Irkutsk region and the recent death of the chief of the Primorsky SMAFS Oleg Fedyura.

Puchkov 57 years old. Until 1995, he served in the army, then moved to the structure of the Ministry of Emergencies. Stock lieutenant general. Since 2007, the deputy head of the Ministry of Emergencies; In May 2012, after the appointment of his chief Sergei Shoigu the governor of the Moscow Region, the ministry headed.

According to "New", the resignation of Puchkov, if it takes place, will become the second permutation in the government made on the eve of the elections to the State Duma. On August 19, the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov lost the portfolio. On the same day, the official of the presidential administration Olga Vasilieva took his place.

Meanwhile, later spokeswoman Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov in the commentary of RBC denied the message “New”, calling information about Puchkov’s resignation “rumors and speculation”.