NALCHIK, April 4 (Itar-Tass) -- Kabardino- Balkaria's President Arsen Kanokov has signed a decree, dismissing the local government headed by Prime Minister Alexander Merkulov, the presidential administration told Itar-Tass on Monday. "The decree has been signed. The government will be officially informed about its dismissal at a conference on Monday," it said.
President Kanokov believes that the government was responsible for the deterioration of the situation in Kabardino-Balkaria in recent months. The president said that after a new government was appointed he would build up efforts to improve the work with young people in the republic and intensify the struggle against religious extremism.
Outgoing Prime Minister Alexander Merkulov occupied the post of the head of the government of Kabardino-Balkaria since August 2009. In September 2010 after Kanokov was re-appointed President of Kabardino-Balkaria for another term the local parliament unanimously re-endorsed Merkulov in the post of the prime minister.
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