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Putin Fired Fradkov’s Govt For Reasons Similar to Kasyanov’s Resignation
The reason for resignation of Mikhail Fradkov’s cabinet is similar to ouster of Mikhail Kasyanov’s government in 2004, Mayak broadcaster reported citing President Vladimir Putin, who is in Belgorod now.
Putin said he “thought it expedient to remove questions, uncertainty as to what would happen to each definite man and how the system of power and control would be built in the country after these elections, same as in 2004, on the eve of those presidential elections.”
The decision to change cabinet roots in the “need to show the vector of country’s development, of forming up administration and executive power after elections to parliament and president.”
The abrupt upheaval in cabinet that surprised Russia and the world at large happened yesterday, September 12, 2007, when PM Mikhail Fradkov handed in resignation attributing it to “approaching major political events in the country” and President Vladimir Putin accepted it with no apparent hesitation. In the next move, Putin nominated low-key Viktor Zubkov, chief of Federal Financial Monitoring Service, to replace Fradkov.
www.kommersant.com
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