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Putin fired the head of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak. Medvedev appointed him the secretary of the General Council EP
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak. This is stated on the Kremlin website.
The temporarily acting head of the region, he appointed the deputy envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District Mikhail Vedernikov. Turchak, reportedly, filed a dismissal of dismissal of his own free will.
As previously written by RBC, Andrei Turchak can be replaced by Sergey Neverov as secretary of the General Council of United Russia. This was confirmed by the sources of Vedomosti, however, according to them, the candidacy of Turchak is not satisfied with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Later on October 12, Dmitry Medvedev appointed Turchak to acting as a secretary of the General Council of the party, Interfax reports.
“We have ahead of the main political event - the election of the President of the Russian Federation. There are a lot of work. I am ready, ”said Andrei Turchak.
Turchak became the eleventh governor who was resigned this fall. Previously, the governors of the Ivanovo region , the Novosibirsk region , the Primorsky Territory , the Nenets Autonomous Okrug , the Krasnoyarsk Territory , the Nizhny Novgorod , Samara , Oryol and Omsk regions, as well as the head of Dagestan , lost their posts. All of them left "of their own free will."
The resignation of Andrei Turchak was predicted in December 2016.