“We considered this a big challenge, a request for change, we must come up with new approaches ... We work, we fulfill our duties until the last, until a new government is formed,” Mutko quotes TASS.
He stressed that the resignation of the cabinet should not affect the work of the governor’s corps.
Earlier, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the entire government is resigning.
Russian President Vladimir Putin asked the Cabinet of Ministers to fulfill their full duties until the formation of a new government.
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation Mikhail Emelyanov, commenting on the decision to resign, said that such changes are necessary to implement the political course set by Putin.