MOSCOW, July 29 Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Valentina Antropova Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, the corresponding decree published on the official Internet portal of legal information. «To appoint Antropova Valentina Viktorovna as Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters,» the document says. The decree comes into force from the date of its signing, on July 29. served as Deputy Director of the Department of Budgetary Policy in the Sphere of State Military and Law Enforcement Service and the State Defense Order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. In May, President Vladimir Putin dismissed Andrei Gurovich, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, who since June 2018, as Deputy Minister, had overseen the activities of the Financial and Economic Department, Department of Property Relations, as well as the Department of Strategic Planning and Organizational Work. Currently, Gurovich is accused of exceeding his powers in the construction of a covid hospital in the Murmansk region. According to investigators, in 2020 he organized the allocation of more than 969 million rubles from the federal budget for the construction of a field hospital for patients with COVID-19, the hospital was built without taking into account climatic conditions and was dismantled without working a day. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation believes that Gurovich «did not take measures for the effective use of budgetary funds», as a result of which damage was caused to the treasury of the Murmansk region «in the amount of more than 323 million rubles».
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