The Governor of the Novgorod Region announced the early addition of authority

The governor of the Novgorod region Sergei Mitin announced early addition of authority. According to Interfax, he said, he leaves his post of his own free will and already asked the president about a new place of work.

Mitin added that he led the region for a long time and it became a native land for him. Mitin also said that he would not participate in the 2017 election campaign.

Sergey Mitin has been heading the Novgorod region since 2007. In 2012, he re -elected for a second term, gaining 75 percent of votes.

Earlier, RBC reported that the head of the agency of strategic initiatives Andrei Nikitin is considered the most likely successor to Mitin. “Nikitin is young, smart, with ties in the Kremlin, the White House, the ministries,” said one of the interlocutors of the agency. Another source indicated that Nikitin knows regional policy, since Asi traditionally draws up a rating of the regional investment attractiveness.

Last Tuesday, Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of the head of Buryatia Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, appointing the deputy minister of transport, 40-year-old Alexei Tsydenov in his place. On Monday, the leader in the Perm Territory changed - Governor Viktor Basarginfiled to resign . His post was taken by the head of the Department of Economic Policy and Development of Moscow, Maxim Reshetnikov.

According to media reports, Governor of Karelia Alexander Khudilinen, as well as the governors of the Ryazan, Sverdlovsk and Ivanovo regions Oleg Kovalev, Evgeny Kuyvashev and Pavel Konykov, may also resign in the near future.