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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed Iryna Sekh from the post of the head of Lviv Regional State Administration and appointed Yuriy Turiansky as the acting governor of the region.

Relevant decrees were posted on the president’s Web site on Aug. 14.

Turiansky worked at the Department of Economic Theory at Lviv Commercial Academy.

He headed the energy department in Lviv Regional State Administration. In 2010, he was a chief advisor to the chairman of Ukraine’s national gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy.

MP Sekh of the Svoboda faction was appointed Lviv regional governor on March 2 of this year, by Acting President Oleksandr Turchynov.

Sekh has not given up her seat in the Verkhovna Rada.