“It works as it did,” she told TASS, adding that the head of the region did not write a statement.

Earlier, RBC, citing sources, wrote that Sipyagin wrote a letter of resignation.

According to the interlocutors of the publication, the official will take the deputy mandate and go to the State Duma.

It was reported that he would announce his decision after the CEC summed up the results of the Duma elections.