Upper House Decides Kravtsov's Fate

The conclusion of Legal Assembly Chairman Yury Kravtsov's struggle to stay in power after he was retired last Thursday is to be decided by the Federal Council (SF), parliament's upper house, of which he is a member.

<BR>The conclusion of Legal Assembly Chairman Yury Kravtsov's struggle to stay in power after he was retired last Thursday is to be decided by the Federal Council (SF), parliament's upper house, of which he is a member.<BR>The circumstances in which his authority was prematurely revoked will be examined by an SF Mandate Commission before the council announces it's verdict. The earliest conference of Russian congressmen will be on 22 April.<BR>The Legal Assembly passed a ruling firing it's chairman Yury Kravtsov last Thursday, 2 April. His authority passed to First Deputy Sergei Mironov, who has been acting as chairman since 14 February, when Yury Kravtsov officially went on vacation. <BR>Chairman Kravtsov was retired under a bill rushed through the Legal Assembly just days before, and heavily criticised by the assembly's judicial administration, for violating the City Charter and the Russian Constitution, in the way it was passed.