MOSCOW, April 19. Deputy Prime Minister and Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev believes that a separate official or group of people should oversee the development and integration of new regions of Russia, including because the heads of republics sometimes do not know which structure to contact for a solution to a specific issue.
Answering the question about whether a separate institution of plenipotentiary representation is needed in new regions, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that decisions at this level are made exclusively by the President of the Russian Federation, who appoints his plenipotentiary representatives.
“Someone, I don’t know in what position <…>, who every day thinks about how the republics are developing, what needs to be changed or created in legislation specifically to take into account the peculiarities of work in these territories — it seems to me that such a person is needed,” Trutnev told reporters.
The Deputy Prime Minister noted that on every trip he tries to meet with the heads of new regions.
«On the last trip we met with the head of the Lugansk and the head of the Donetsk People's Republics — they have a lot of questions. Imagine that the republics found themselves, in fact, at the same time in the structure of the legislation of the Russian Federation, a huge country with peculiarities, with such a large stable system of federal executive authorities, they often simply do not understand with whom to resolve the issue, for them it is simply a problem — who to go to with this. it seems that such a person or such a group of people is needed — in the capacity in which this will be decided,” Trutnev clarified.
Referendums on the entry of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into Russia were held on September 23-27, 2022 . On September 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in the Kremlin on the results of the referendums, after which he signed agreements on the admission of these entities to the Russian Federation. Then, on October 5, the head of state signed federal laws ratifying the entry of new regions into Russia.