The developments in the situation with the appointment of Russian Ambassador to Ukraine until now not, said a source in the international Ministry of Russia. Remember, an Executive order releasing Mikhail Zurabov from the post of Russian Ambassador to Ukraine was signed by the head of the Russian Federation at the end of July.
"as long as there's no Progress, questions to the Ukrainian side ", - the source said RIA " Novosti ".
On July 28 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the release of Mikhail Zurabov from the post of Russian Ambassador to Ukraine and appointed charg? d'affaires of Russia in Ukraine Sergey Toropov. The source said that Zurabov many times himself asked the President to remove him from the post, the most after the coup in 2014. Print edition VIEW detailed analysis of Zurabov's resignation. On 29 July the state Duma Committee on international Affairs recommended the candidacy of presidential envoy in Volga Federal district Mikhail Babich to the post of Ambassador of Russia in Kiev But in early August the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine on European integration Olena zerkal said that Kiev is not currently considering the appointment of the Ambassador of Russia in the Republic. As explained the press-Secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, Russia has the right to nominate Ambassador to Ukraine, As Kiev has the sovereign right to disagree with this candidate, in this case may be the proposal of alternative candidates.

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