Vladimir Yakunin registered as the candidate for the Federation Council
The Kaliningrad Region election commission at its meeting held on August 17, 2015, decided to consider Vladimir Yakunin, President of Russian Railways, as the candidate for the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the commission’s press center says.
Yakunin’s candidacy for the Federation Council was put forward by Nikolay Tsukanov, the acting governor of the Kaliningrad Region, who also informed the commission about the exclusion of Pavel Karetov from the list of candidates.