Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new list of the Central Election Commission (CEC) members which did not include the commission's current chairman Vladimir Churov, The Moscow Times informs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new list of the Central Election Commission (CEC) members which did not include the commission's current chairman Vladimir Churov, The Moscow Times informs.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that the head of CEC Vladimir Churov, is leaving in what is natural rotation, the new presidential list of CEC members has people of different views on it.
"This is the choice of the head of state," he explained. "There are also rotation factors in it, it is an absolutely natural rotation process," Peskov claimed.
According to TASS, among the new members of the commission named on Thursday are the plenipotentiary for human rights, Ella Pamfilova, Vasily Likhachev MP of the Communist Party caucus, Yevgeniy Shevchenko of the Patriots of Russia party, and the deputy head of the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, Aleksandr Kinev.
