MOSCOW - The new ambassador of Russia to Ukraine will most likely be approved after the election of the State Duma of the seventh convocation, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma committee on CIS affairs, Eurasian integration and liaison with Russians abroad, said.
“The relevant State Duma committee can most likely consider the candidate of the new ambassador of Russia to Ukraine only after the federal parliamentary elections [scheduled for September 18] and the completion of the formation of the structure of the lower house of the State Duma of the seventh convocation, that is, no earlier than October. There are currently no candidacies to the post of Russian ambassador to Ukraine in the committee,” Slutsky told reporters on July 28.
Earlier on July 28, the Russian president dismissed Mikhail Zurabov from his post of Russian ambassador to Ukraine.
