Peskov: Churov leaves in ‘natural rotation’

The leaving of the head of the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC), Vladimir Churov, is natural rotation, the new presidential list of CEC members has people of different views on it, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

"This is the choice of the head of state," he noted in reply to the question why Churov was not on the list. "There are also rotation factors in it, it is an absolutely natural rotation process," Peskov said.

He stressed that "the political spectrum of presidential appointees to the CEC is rather wide, including representatives from non-parliamentary parties and parliamentary factions with a broad variety of political views, with a very rich experience in different sectors".