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The former acting head of the Kaliningrad region Yevgeny Zinichev became Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service. Such information is published on the FSB website.

Information about the leadership of the special services says that Lieutenant General Zinichev was appointed to the post in October 2016. He became the sixth deputy director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov. Prior to this, the head of the special services had five deputies.

On June 26, President Vladimir Putin accepted the early resignation of the head of the Kaliningrad region Nikolai Tsukanov and appointed him the temporarily acting governor before taking office as the head of the region. The President approved his intention Tsukanov to participate in the elections. “I think that you have every reason to go to the elections and ask the residents of the region of the mandate to continue the work that you are doing now. I want to wish you success,” Putin said.

However, on July 28, Putin appointed Tsukanov as a penny in the North-Western Federal District and entrusted the acting on Zinichev Governor . Since June 2015, he headed the regional department of the FSB. From 2006 to 2015, Zinichev was Putin’s personal adjutant, an employee of the Federal Security Service.

On October 6, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the release of Zinichev from the performance of the duties of the governor in connection with the transition to another work at his request. Thus, the general spent a record short time in this position - 70 days. New acting The head of the region was appointed Prime Minister of the regional government Anton Alikhanov.

"The acting governor of the Kaliningrad region Zinichev Evgeny Nikolaevich for family reasons asks him to return him to Moscow. In such cases, it is impossible to insist on another," Putin said at a meeting with Alikhanov.

The election of the governor of the region in 2016 was never appointed. Now they can go on the next single voting day, September 10, 2017.