So the Russian leader reacted to the statement of one of the participants in the meeting in Simferopol that he "survived ten republic prime ministers" before Aksyonov.
“What are you hinting at?” The president said ironically.
In response to a question, Putin’s interlocutor stated that each subsequent head of the region “worked worse than the previous one” and asked the leader “for God's sake not to take Sergei Valeryevich from the republic”.
“For God's sake, we will not take it away,” the president promised.
Earlier, Putin at a meeting with representatives of the public of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, said that he had invited Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan to open a mosque in the Crimea.