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Putin appointed Vasiliev Vasiliev’s vice-speaker of the State Duma The heads of Dagestan
Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov, who left his position of his own free will. This was reported on the Kremlin website.
At the same time, Putin appointed the temporary leader of the region of the State Duma, the head of the United Russia faction Vladimir Vasiliev. At a meeting with him, Putin noted that he would like “that a person with experience with federal work, a federal level politician,“ political heavyweight ”was headed by the republic.
The president indicated that Dagestan is one of the most important Russian regions, "not to mention the Caucasus." “This is a very beautiful republic, its beauty is not only in nature, whose beauty is obvious, but primarily in the people who live there,” Putin added.
As noted by Vedomosti, Vasiliev will become the first head of Dagestan in the post -Soviet time, which was not born in the republic (Vasiliev - a native of Klin). Prior to the election to the State Duma in 2004, Vasiliev served as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Abdulatipov led Dagestan for three years. He announced his resignation on September 27, admitting that he would subsequently take care of scientific and social activities. Prior to this, the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Tolokonsky , the head of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev , Samara Governor Nikolai Merkushkin and the head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Igor Koshin lost their posts.