Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma signed a series of personnel decrees on Friday evening. \n \nAccording to the press service of the head of state, Kuchma dismissed Minister of Agrarian Policy Viktor Slauta from his post. \n \nThe president also signed a decree dismissing Yevhen Kushnaryov from the post of head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration. By another decree, Stepan Maselskyy, who was previously one of the deputy heads of the region, was appointed to this post. \n \nIn addition, Kuchma by his decree dismissed Vasyl Baziv from the post of deputy head of the presidential administration - head of the main analytical department of the administration. \n \nSlauta has headed the Ministry of Agrarian Policy since January 2004. Since October 2003 he has been a member of the "Regions of Ukraine" faction. First deputy head of the parliamentary committee on state building and local self-government. At the time of his resignation he was on vacation. \n \nOn December 16, Slauta submitted a resignation letter in connection with his transfer to work in parliament. Until recently, he combined work in executive bodies with a parliamentary mandate. \n\nCombining parliamentary powers with work in executive structures of power contradicts the current Constitution of Ukraine. \n \nKushnaryov had headed the Kharkiv regional administration since 2000. He also submitted a vacation request and accompanied candidate Yanukovych in Kharkiv on Friday. \n \nEarlier he had stated that he intended to part with this post in favor of working as head of the Kharkiv Regional Council and in favor of public politics. \n \nBaziv, who was Medvedchuk's deputy in Kuchma's administration, once cynically advised Yushchenko's supporters to try the food before giving it to the opposition candidate. \n \nIn the last week he gave an interview to the Financial Times in which he said that Medvedchuk and Yanukovych had demanded that Kuchma use force against the demonstrators. \n \nA little later he gave a lengthy interview to the BBC in which he practically acknowledged Yushchenko's victory. \n