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Secretary of the State Council.
In spite of the resignations, the Kremlin’s personnel policy regarding governors has so far remained rather conservative. Vladimir Putin has endorsed the candidacies of most sitting governors who are up for reelection in September, including officials like Orenburg Governor Denis Pasler, who was criticized for the region’s mismanagement of floods, and Ingushetia Governor Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, whose brother was arrestedlast week on corruption charges. Therefore, the two resignations appear to be individual cases, potentially linked to changes in the federal government. However, the past weeks also saw a new wave of arrests of regional officials, which began following the March presidential election. High officials, including deputy governors, sitting or former members of regional governments, and law enforcement personnel, were arrested under suspicion of corruption in the Altai Territory, Bashkortostan, Dagestan, theKrasnodar Territory, the Moscow Region, the Oryol Region, the Rostov Region and Tatarstan.
In Chechnya, meanwhile, Magomed Daudov was appointed to head the government of the region. Daudov had been recently dismissed as the Speaker of the region’s parliament and many have considered him a candidate for a higher position in the federal government. In the end, this went to Muslim Khuchiev, Daudov’s predecessor in his new position, who was appointed as an aide to federal Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, strengthening the federal positions of Chechnya’s head, Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Estonian president approves law allowing use of frozen Russian assets for Ukraine. "Although the chosen method of compensation is innovative, it aims to protect the prohibition of aggression as a fundamental rule of international law," Alar Karis said in a statement.
Discussing multiple Western governments agreeing to allow Ukraine to strike military targets within Russia with Nato-supplied weapons, Putin (who apparently shares his daughter’s writers) positively whimpered: “If they consider it possible to deliver such weapons to the combat zone to strike our territory and create problems for us, then why don’t we have the right to supply our weapons of the same class to regions of the world from which strikes can be launched on sensitive targets in countries that are attacking Russia?” Putin said at SPIEF.
Simultaneous attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent on June 23 targeted both non-Islamic religious soft targets and police. One civilian casualty yet reported (although cars were shot at and hijacked), half-size police killed and 10+ wounded at least. Multiple militants have now been killed
Dagestan official removed after sons suspected of Makhachkala and
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