19 May 2020 12:45

Belousov stops being acting PM - presidential order

MOSCOW. May 19 (Interfax) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed an executive order invalidating the previous order that appointed First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov as the acting prime minister.

Belousov was designated the acting prime minister on April 30 after Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin fell ill with coronavirus.

The executive order published on the Kremlin website on Tuesday "invalidated the Russian president's order No. 300 dated April 30, 2020, 'On the Acting Prime Minister'."