Putin fired the Ivanovo Governor Konkov

Vladimir Putin fired the governor of the Ivanovo region Pavel Konkov. The corresponding decree is published on the Kremlin website. The official has resigned of his own free will.

I.O. The governor was appointed deputy head of the Ministry of Economic Development Stanislav Voskresensky.

Konkov is 59 years old. He is a native of Ivanov, in the 1980s-early 2000s he worked at textile enterprises; Since the mid-1990s-in the posts of top managers. In 2003, he was elected to the regional Legislative Assembly from United Russia and took the post of speaker. However, the next year, Konkov was removed from the post of speaker and excluded from the EP. He was restored in the party only in 2008, simultaneously with the appointment of the first deputy prime minister of the region. I.O. The heads of the Konkov region became in October 2013; 11 months later, he was declared the winner of the governor's elections.

Voskresensky 41 years old. In 2004-2008, he worked in the expert department of the presidential administration, including as a deputy head. The post in the Ministry of Economic Development was held since 2008 with a break in 2012-2014, when there was Putin’s deputy chair in the North-Western Federal District.

Konkov has become the tenth of the head of the region, dismissed over the past two weeks. Before him, the Samara Governor Nikolai Merkushkin, Valery Shantsev, the head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Igor Koshin, the Krasnoyarsk governor Vladimir Tolokonsky, the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov, the Primorsky governor Vladimir Miklushevsky, the Oryol - Vadim Potomsky, Vladimir Gorodetsky - Victor Nazarov, lost their posts.