Ryzhkov will continue to work in the Federation Council as an adviser to Matvienko
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Former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Nikolai Ryzhkov said that he will continue to work in the Federation Council after the early termination of his senatorial powers in the post of adviser to the Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, transmits TASS.
“This is my decision [о прекращении полномочий]. I had a conversation with Valentina Ivanovna, she will invite me to go to her as an adviser on a voluntary basis,” he said.
Ryzhkov clarified that he will continue to work in the Federation Council, but no longer in the status of a senator. He explained that he decided to terminate his powers due to age. “I looked at my passport and said ‘enough is enough’,” he said (quote according to RIA Novosti).
Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko prematurely terminated the powers of the oldest senator, 94-year-old Ryzhkov, on September 25. Since 2003, he represented the government of the Belgorod region in the upper house of parliament. The governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, has not yet announced who he will send to the Federation Council instead of Ryzhkov.
How wrote previously Vedomosti, after Ryzhkov left the Federation Council, the oldest senator became the 79-year-old former Secretary of State of the Union State of Russia and Belarus Grigory Rapota. Since 2021, he represents the government of the Kursk region in the upper house.
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