Pasler will replace Kuyvashev, and Solntsev – Pasler
Orenburg governor Denis Pasler He will head Sverdlovsk region, and its place Take it Chairman of the Government of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Evgeny Solntsev. This became known late in the evening of March 26, when President Vladimir Putin met with both politicians and invited them to change their place of work. What the former head of the Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvashev will do is still unknown.
“I want to ask you to return to your native places where you have already worked, and in a high position. You know very well this region, one of the key, we have an industrialized region ” – this is how Vladimir Putin began his meeting with Denis Pasler, who was born in the Sverdlovsk region, was engaged in business there, and from 2012 to 2016 he headed the regional government. Mr. Pasler thanked the president for trust and promised to “make every effort” to solve the tasks.
Soon after, the Kremlin announced another meeting of Mr. Putin – with the chairman of the Government of the DPR Evgeny Solntsev. Recalling his previous work in a number of large companies (including Russian Railways and Rosatom), the head of state invited Mr. Solntsev to move to Orenburg and take the post “with a wider volume” of powers. The Donetsk prime minister replied that he “naturally agreed”, but asked for a “couple of months” to “objectively assess the situation” in an unfamiliar region for him.
Recall that a graduate of the « School of Governors » Evgeny Solntsev came to the Government of the DPR from the perspective of the assistant to the head of the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation in the summer of 2022 and worked in the republic under the leadership of Vitaly Khotsenko. The latter in 2023 headed the Omsk region, and Mr. Solntsev became his successor as a republican prime minister.
The question of the further employment of the outgoing Sverdlovsk governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev is still open. He was one of the old -timers of the Governor’s Corps, having worked in his post for nearly 13 years. For the Sverdlovsk residents, Mr. Kuyvashev was not “his own”: he was born and began a political career in the neighboring Tyumen region, and in Sverdlovskaya he “transit” through the post of presidential envoy in the Urals Federal District, which he occupied from September 2011 to May 2012. Nevertheless, Evgeny Kuyvashev was twice re-elected for a new term in direct governor’s elections: in 2017, he received 62.2% of the vote, and in 2022-65.8%.
