Self-proclaimed Lugansk Peoples Republic elects head, passes constitution: LNR’s state council – which acts as a temporary legislative body – has chosen Valery Bolotov as the head of the republic. The council also elected its speaker, Aleksey Karyakin, and Prime Minister - Vasily Nikitin. Bolotov was born in Russia’s southern port city of Taganrog in 1974. He has two university degrees. He also worked his way up from a manager to the director at a meat factory. Before being elected as the head of the self-proclaimed republic, he was serving as the “people’s governor” of Lugansk region. Deputies of the council who where elected earlier on Sunday on also adopted a temporary constitution of the Lugansk People’s Republic. The newly elected prime minister already identified what his first steps in the office will be. “As the prime minister I will form a new government. I will announce the specific candidates later. The members of the new cabinet will be determined in the second part of the day [tomorrow],” Itar-Tass quoted Nikitin as saying. Last weekend, Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions held referendums in which the majority of voters supported self-rule. In Lugansk region 96.2 percent of voters supported the region’s self-rule, according to final figures announced by the local election commission. Almost 90 percent of voters in Donetsk region have endorsed political independence from Kiev.
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 04:09:13 +0000
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