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It came to the edge
The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Tolokonsky is resigned. The head of the region announced this at a meeting with members of the government and the Legislative Assembly of the region, Krasnoyarsk "7 Channel" reports .
Tolokonsky looked excited during his speech, said deputy Alexei Kleshko. “I am leaving and even leaving,” the governor began his performance. Tolokonsky regretfully noted that he "did not complete all the things" and asked the remaining to finish them.
The employees of the regional administration were named the successor to Tolokonsky, the source of the channel said . They will be the 40-year-old head of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations Mikhail Kotyukov. From 2007 to 2010, he served as deputy governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and headed the regional Ministry of Finance.
Messages that Tolokonsky wrote a resignation statement appeared on September 22. However, a source in the government of the region denied this.
From 2000 to 2010, Tolokonsky was the governor of the Novosibirsk region, then - the plenipotentiary of the President in the Siberian Federal District. In May 2014, President Vladimir Putin appointed Tolokonsky acting governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In September of the same year, in the election of the head of the region, Tolokonsky gained 63.3 percent of the vote.
This is the third resignation of the head of the region this week. On Monday, Putin signed a decree on the early termination of powers of the Governor of the Samara Region Nikolai Merkushkin "of his own free will." The next day, the president dismissed the governorof the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev .