MOSCOW, Nov. 2 Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Agrarian Food policy and environmental management Alexei Mayorov will leave his post, he will be replaced by Senator from the Moscow region Alexander Dvoinykh, Vyacheslav Timchenko, chairman of the Federation Council committee on regulations, said. .
According to Timchenko, a member of this committee, senator from the Moscow region Alexander Dvoinykh, is expected to be elected as chairman of the agrarian committee.
According to a source in the Federation Council, Mayorov will was elected first deputy chairman of the agrarian committee on Wednesday.
Mayorov has been representing Kalmykia in the Federation Council since 2011, and has been heading the committee since 2018.
Dvoinykh was delegated to the Federation Council in September 2021. Prior to that, he served as head of the Domodedovo city district.