MOSCOW, October 2. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin will appoint interim heads of four new regions within ten days after accession of those territories. Corresponding items are provided in the treaties on accession of those territories to Russia, with references to them included in decrees published on the website of the Russian Constitutional Court on Sunday.
"Russian President appoints interim top official of the Kherson Region, Governor of the Kherson Region, for the period until Governor of the Kherson Region elected in accordance with the Russian legislation takes office, within ten says after accession of the Kherson Region to Russia and the formation of a new entity in Russia," according to a decree on recognition of the treaty on accession of the Kherson Region to Russia constitutional. Similar items are provided in treaties with the DPR, LPR and the Zaporozhye Region.
Heads of the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions will be given the status of governors, whereas in the DPR and the LPR top officials will be called heads.
From September 23 to September 27, the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) as well as the Kherson Region and the Zaporozhye Region held a referendum where the majority of voters opted to join Russia. On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the DPR and the LPR, the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions signed treaties on their accession to Russia.