A federal scale tragedy occurred in the Ural Federal District last week. Monday, April 2, in the morning airliner ATR-72 owned by the company «Utair» crashed under Tyumen. 31 people died, another 12 are still in serious condition. Other events were mainly political.
A federal scale tragedy occurred in the Ural Federal District last week. Monday, April 2, in the morning airliner ATR-72 owned by the company «Utair» crashed under Tyumen. 31 people died, another 12 are still in serious condition. Other events were mainly political. Sverdlovsk Governor Alexander Misharin met with President Dmitry Medvedev. Two major Urals officials, Vice Governor of the Southern Urals Alexey Ovakimian and Head of Muravlenko administration Mikhail Nikitin resigned their posts.
Medvedev promised Misharin 149 million rubles on drugs
Last week Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Alexander Misharin the first time since the December accident reported to President Dmitry Medvedev on the situation in the Sverdlovsk Region. The two main topics of conversation were introduction of the developed in the Middle Urals the antiviral drug «Triazavirin» and the liquidation of queues in the kindergartens of the Region. Following the meeting, the President signed a decree to «Skolkovo» fund to allocate 149 million rubles for the completion of work on innovative triazaverin.
The Deputy Head of the Chelyabinsk Region on Investments wrote a letter on resignation on his own
On Thursday, April 5, Vice Governor Alexey Ovakimian submitted his resignation to Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region Mikhail Yurevich. His decision Vice Governor did not explain: the phone of now former Vice Governor of that day did not answer.
Plane crash in Tyumen killed 31 people
The main event of last week in the Ural Federal District was a crash of passenger airliner ATR-72 owned by the company «UTair». The tragedy took place on April 2, 5hours 44 minutes Moscow time, 45 km from Tyumen. There were 43 people on board the aircraft flying Tyumen - Surgut: 39 passengers and four crew members.
Governor of the Tyumen Region Vladimir Yakushev came One of the first on a site of the tragedy, later he was joined by colleague from the Ugra Natalia Komarova. In Tyumen urgently flown Presidential Envoy in the Ural Federal District Eugene Kuyvashev, Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin, Deputy General Prosecutor Yury Ponomarev, Transport Prosecutor Pavel Kukushkin, members of the IAC.
Ugra and Tatarstan extended cooperation
At the end of the week Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova, as well as the official delegation of the Autonomous Region consisting of the heads of regional governments and businesses structures came to Tatarstan. Following the meeting with the president of the republic Rustam Minnikhanov, an agreement on trade-economic, scientific, technical and social-cultural cooperation between the republic and autonomous region for 5 years was signed.