To be sure

Valentina Matveenko decided not to wait for anything and herself asked Vladimir Putin to appoint her governor. Before this, Matvienko was an “elected” governor, but now she has become an appointed one. A day has passed since Matvienko’s appeal to the Kremlin. They say that Putin has never trusted any governor so quickly. Matvienko does not hide the fact that the issue of trust arose after the elections to the legislative assembly were scheduled for March 11, 2007. “We have a difficult next year and we need to maintain stable power in the city.”