RBC again reported the resignation of the Governor of the Samara region

The governor of the Samara region Nikolai Merkushkin is going to resign. This was reported by RBC with reference to sources close to the Kremlin.

Another interlocutor of the agency, close to the authorities of the Samara region, noted that Merkushkin "urgently flew to Moscow to meet the presidential administration," and added that "it is obvious, his fate is being decided." The press service of the governor refused to comment, explaining that in the evening he plans to attend the event in Togliatti, so "he must be in the region."

According to the sources of RBC, Merkushkin’s resignation was discussed in the spring, but then a “compromise figure” was not found in his place. Now such a figure, apparently, has been found, they added.

On September 20, Kommersant, citing sources, spoke about the upcoming resignation of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev. Sources of Gazeta.Ru argued that as one of the candidates for his post, the first deputy head of the apparatus of the Russian government Maxim Akimov was considered. Shantsev himself later rejected his departure.

The fact that in the fall of 2017 they will resign up to ten governors, RBC wrote in early September. The sources of the publication did not specify in which regions the leadership would change. The interlocutors of the rain claimed that the head of the Omsk region Viktor Nazarov could leave his post. The Kremlin called this information similar to the "ordinary duck".