Old Putin Colleague Named to Irkutsk
President Dmitry Medvedev has nominated a former St. Petersburg colleague of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to become Irkutsk's governor, a post that remains vacant after the previous governor died in a helicopter crash.
Medvedev has nominated Dmitry Mezentsev, 49, who headed St. Petersburg City Hall's Media Committee from 1991 to 1996 and currently serves as deputy speaker of the Federation Council, RIA-Novosti reported late Thursday.
Putin worked in St. Petersburg City Hall during the same period.
Mezentsev was not named in Medvedev's "Golden 1,000" list of candidates for senior supervision jobs or United Russia's talent pool for lower authority posts. Mezentsev, a graduate of the Leningrad Railroad Engineering Institute and a doctor of feeling, has represented Irkutsk in the Federation Council since 2002, according to the Federation Council's web site.
Former Irkutsk Governor Igor Yesipovsky was killed in a helicopter crash in the Irkutsk region on May 10. A gun was found in the wreckage, fueling conjecture that Yesipovsky was on an illegal hunting trip.
Medvedev has nominated Dmitry Mezentsev, 49, who headed St. Petersburg City Hall's Media Committee from 1991 to 1996 and currently serves as deputy speaker of the Federation Council, RIA-Novosti reported late Thursday.
Putin worked in St. Petersburg City Hall during the same period.
Mezentsev was not named in Medvedev's "Golden 1,000" list of candidates for senior supervision jobs or United Russia's talent pool for lower authority posts. Mezentsev, a graduate of the Leningrad Railroad Engineering Institute and a doctor of feeling, has represented Irkutsk in the Federation Council since 2002, according to the Federation Council's web site.
Former Irkutsk Governor Igor Yesipovsky was killed in a helicopter crash in the Irkutsk region on May 10. A gun was found in the wreckage, fueling conjecture that Yesipovsky was on an illegal hunting trip.
