KRASNOYARSK, Apr 23 Yuri Lapshin left with the post of chairman of the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the press service of the governor of the region reported.
Lapshin served as head of the regional government for five years. He was invited to this position by the former head of the region Alexander Uss.
«Prime Minister Yury Lapshin has written a letter of resignation… Acting Governor Mikhail Kotyukov has accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister,» the report says.
The press service quoted Lapshin as saying that he «considered it right to leave his post after the governor, whose team I am a member of, because the chairman of the government is a landmark position, and the new head of the region should have the opportunity also from the first days of immersion in this difficult work to decide who will be there. »
Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Kotyukov this week was appointed acting governor of Krasnoyarsk instead of Uss, who was offered a job at the federal level by President Vladimir Putin. On Friday, Anatoly Seryshev, presidential envoy to the Siberian Federal District, introduced Kotyukov to regional deputies and officials.