Putin fired the Pskov Governor of Turchak

Vladimir Putin fired the governor of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak. This was reported by RBC with reference to Dmitry Peskov, spokeswoman for the head of state. It is claimed that Turchak resigned of his own free will.

I.O. The governor was appointed, the head of Putin in the North-Western Federal District, Mikhail Vedernikov.

On the eve of RBC with reference to two sources - one in the Kremlin, the other close to the Kremlin - reported that the resignation of Turchak will become the last in the current series replacements of the heads of regions. After leaving the governor’s post, the publication wrote, Turchak will become the secretary of the General Council of United Russia. Sergei Neverov, who previously held this post, was recently appointed leader of the Duma YP faction in return Vladimir Vasiliev, who, after the resignation of Ramazan Abdulatipov, headed Dagestan.

Thus, in just two weeks with a little, 11 chapters of the regions lost their posts. In addition to Abdulatipov and Turchak, this is Samara Governor Nikolai Merkushkin, Nizhny Novgorod - Valery Shantsev, the head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Igor Koshin, Krasnoyarsk governor Vladimir Tolokonsky, Primorsky - Vladimir Miklushevsky, Vadim Razzlovsky, Novosibirsk - Vladimir Gorodetsky - Viktor Nazarov, Ivanovsky - Pavel Konkov.

Turchak is 41 years old, he is the son of Anatoly Turchak, the top manager of the St. Petersburg holding Leninets. In the 1990s, Anatoly Turchak was the deputy chairman of the regional council of the “Our House - Russia” movement; He was headed by the Putin regional council. The media mentioned Turchak Sr. and as Putin’s partner in sports martial arts.

Andrei Turchak worked in Leninz and other business structures of his father. In 2005, he joined the EP. In the same year, he became a member of the United Russia Coordinating Council; in 2007-2008, he was its chairman. At the same time as 2007, the Senator from the Assembly of Deputies of the Pskov Region. The governor’s post has been held since February 2009.

Turchak was called the customer of the attempt in 2010 , an attempt on journalist Oleg Kashin . In the case, the head of the mechanical factory of the Zaslon holding Danila Veselov and his two subordinates - Vyacheslav Borisov and Mikhail Kavtaskin were arrested. They testified to the official, as well as the director of the holding Alexander Gorbunov, who was called the organizer of the crime. 40 percent of the "barrier" belongs to the father of Turchak. Kashin himself noted that in 2010 he received a threat from the Pskov governor. However, Turchak himself rejects the charges against him .

Vedernikov 42 years old. In the 2000s, he was a municipal deputy in the Leningrad Region, at the same time in 2007-2010 he held a post of deputy chairman and first deputy chairman of the executive committee of the regional branch of EP. Since 2010, he worked in the presidential administration. Since December 2012-Putin's deputy chair in the North Caucasus Federal District. Since February of this year, he has been transferred to a similar position in the NWFO; He oversaw the Kaliningrad region.