Putin signs decrees on forming Crimean Federal District, appoints Oleg Belaventsev his envoy

MOSCOW, March 21 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on forming the Crimean Federal District within Russia and appointed Oleg Belaventsev his plenipotentiary envoy there. The RF head of state announced this after the signing of the laws on the accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation. “Today I have signed several decrees, including the decree on the formation of another federal district - the Crimean Federal District, and appointed Belaventsev Oleg Vladimirovich the RF president’s plenipotentiary envoy to Crimea,” he said. Vice Admiral Oleg Belaventsev graduated from Sevastopol Higher Naval Engineer School. He was first deputy director general of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) Rosvooruzheniye, head of the Federal State Institution Emercom Agency of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, head of the administration of affairs of the governor of the Moscow region and government of the Moscow region. He has recently occupied the post of director general of the JSC Slavyanka. Kremlin administration head Sergei Ivanov told reporters that there were no plans yet to combine the post of the plenipotentiary envoy in Crimea with the post of the vice premier, as it was done, for example, in the North Caucasian and Far Eastern Federal Districts. “Vice premier... not yet,” He said. According to Ivanov, “the main task at the moment is to bring Crimea into a condition worthy of a subject of the Russian Federation that the RF government will undertake.”