Putin instructs to approve plans to form federal authorities in Crimea before March 29

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed chief executives of several ministries and agencies to approve plans of organisational events to form territorial federal executive authorities and other bodies and departments in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol before March 29 envisaging some changes in numerical strength of these authorities if necessary, the Kremlin press service reported on Sunday.

Putin instructed Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the State Courier Service Valery Tikhonov, Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Gennady Kornienko, Director of the Federal Bailiff Service Artur Parfenchikov, Director of the Federal Service for Control over Drugs Circulation Viktor Ivanov, Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov, Director of the Federal Guard Service Yevgeny Murov, Head of the Chief Directorate of Special Presidential Programmes Vladislav Menshchikov, Head of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service Yuri Chikhanchin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “to approve according to specific procedure plans of organisational events to form territorial federal executive authorities and other bodies and departments in the Republic of Crimea and the Russian city of Sevastopol until March 29, 2014 envisaging some changes in numerical strength of specific bodies and departments and to form territorial bodies of federal executive authorities and other bodies and departments according to these plans,” the Kremlin press service reported.

“A report should be delivered in two weeks, then monthly,” the Kremlin press service stated.