Minister of Tourism of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Sergei Yakovlev resigned after the scandalous video

Former Minister of Tourism and Crafts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Sergei Yakovlev apologized after the scandalous video, saying that he accepted responsibility for what happened.

Earlier, a video was published on local Telegram channels in which the Minister of Tourism of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Sergei Yakovlev, who is presumably drunk, demands that police officers detain certain football players, whom he, using obscene language, accuses of playing poorly. At the same time, Yakovlev “shows off” his personal acquaintance with the governor and the head of the Nizhny Novgorod main headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and several times calls himself a member of the regional government.

“I decided to resign from the post of Minister of Tourism and Crafts of the Nizhny Novgorod Region... I fully accept responsibility for what happened and apologize to the participants in the incident, the police, the regional leadership, colleagues and Nizhny Novgorod residents,” Yakovlev wrote on his page on the VKontakte social network.

Earlier, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, announced that he accepted Yakovlev’s resignation.