What is he, serial governor?

Oleg Kozhemyako asked for governorship in Primorye, and Vladimir Putin let him in.

O. Kozhemyako: Vladimir Vladimirovich, being in Vladivostok on the forum, I, as a person who was born in Primorye, grew up there and began to work, of course, looked at the situation that arose there, it is not very good.

Vladimir Putin: What do you mean?

O. Kozhemyako: I mean the situation related to the elections.

Vladimir Putin: Why bad? Normal situation.

O. Kozhemyako: A normal situation. But in general, the potential that the Primorsky Territory has - it is quite large, it is the most densely populated region in the Far East. That is, of course, there is a certain economy, and there is a fisheries complex, agriculture developed, strategic location of the Far East to the Asia -Pacific countries ...

... Of course, the population has big expectations, expectations of changes for the better. And, seeing this situation, understanding the economic component, having a certain experience in the subjects, of course, I would like to coordinate with you, due to the fact that I am now the current governor of Sakhalin, the possibility of participating in the elections of the Governor of the Primorsky Territory - in order to meet the expectations of the inhabitants, and really make the development of the tasks that are faced with the Far East today.

Vladimir Putin: That is, I understood you correctly, Oleg Nikolaevich, that you want to take part in the elections of the Governor of the Primorsky Territory?

O. Kozhemyako: Yes, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Vladimir Putin: Good.

In the transcript on the Kremlin’s website there is also about their native land, communication with classmates and so on.

Compare this with information about the appointment of other acting -Heads of the Astrakhan region and Kabardino-Balkaria. In television news, they simply mentioned the facts of appointments, and how Kozhemyako was eating from Sakhalin, a whole study was played.

Oleg Kozhemyako is a serial governor. The only one that is already headed by the fourth region. Moreover, he has always been an anti -crisis manager. In Koryakia, where he got from the Federation Council, in 2005 there was a state of emergency due to the breakdown of the northern fee. Kozhemyako at first became the vice-governor of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug, then, they say, he greatly contributed to the resignation of the governor and himself took up the post of head of the region. In 2007, he returned to Moscow after Koryakia and Kamchatka united into one subject.

Already in 2008, the president recommended him to the post of Governor of the Amur Region after the early and marked by the scandals of the resignation of the former head of the region Nikolai Kolesov.

In 2015, Kozhemyak was sent to Sakhalin in return for the arrested Alexander Khoroshavin. Three years ago, at that time, I walked around Blagoveshchensk and tried to find out which governor of the Amur region was Oleg Kozhemyako. I went to the Annunciation enterprises, drank teas with journalists of local publications.

Kozhemyako was not the worst governor. He clearly tried to like voters, handed over his puppies through Instagram, rode on Harley, bathed in an ice hole, pulled himself up on the crossbar, advertising a healthy lifestyle

Today I answer the questions of my colleagues - what he is, Oleg Kozhemyako.

Under Oleg Kozhemyako Sakhalin, by the decision of the federal government, he lost a significant part of oil and gas revenues. At the present time, it is difficult to imagine that some other governor dared to dry the will of the Kremlin. But the fact that in the period of the weaning did not follow at all that Sakhalin could not get anything in return at all, showed that discipline, subordination and advance vertical of power for Oleg Kozhemyako is much more important than the interests of the region and the population entrusted to him. For a career, this is useful, but after that, the manager is respected on Sakhalin no longer become.

Oleg Kozhemyako has a strange personnel policy. He wanders from the region to the region with his retinue (some with him for 16 years) and, like a wandering circus, it grows with new bizarre characters. Here is a drinking, but strong -willed woman, but a useless, but faithful grandfather, well, so let him sit to an honorary pension. But a merry-in-chief-sybritit with a purchased diploma , respected people asked him to find a place, which is not a pity, for example, the Minister of Forestry .

- And this strange man where?

- But who knows, for a long time in the wagon, took root.

“Well, let's put it mayor.”

Maybe it was not so, but it looks that way. The ministers who had to be dismissed after scandals. Mayors whose actions diplomatically call "somewhat eccentric" ...

Yes, and the Sakhalin residents who entered the Kozhemyako team raise questions. And deputy chairman of the government Vladimir Sidorenko as one of the participants in the corruption case on the purchase of places in the city Duma of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. And the other deputy chairman is Anton Zaitsev rapidly grown from the director of the sports school.

Another feature of Kozhemyako is the desire for megaprojects to the detriment of everything else.

“He is not interested in anything that less than a billion,” the owners of small fishing companies complained in the past, catastrophic salmon catastrophic year.

And already this year, several fish producers, including those close to Kozhemyako, who control 70% of bioresary mining in the region, organized their association and said that they have the right to speak on behalf of the industry, actually pushing the Association of Fisheries Sakhalin (ARS) - an organization that is over 20 years old.

Several huge agricultural farms are being erected on Sakhalin, in the Korsakovsky district, literally in a clean field, an agricultural town is being built, billions of rubles are allocated for this, but at the same time small farmers who have grazes their cattle for decades are left without pastures, they take their places in the markets where they sold their potatoes.

The development of tourism on Sakhalin, about which Oleg Kozhemyako has recently talked about so much, in fact - the development of only one “Mountain Air” complex. Billions are invested in it, but all other directions are forgotten. It comes to a strange one. In the north of Sakhalin, in the town of Dagi there are thermal springs unique in composition. All Sakhalin goes there to be treated there, but there is no infrastructure there - just pits in the ground filled with water . About the creation of a recreation center in Dagas, conversations have been going on for a long time, but this year nothing has moved away again. But in the work, the multimillion -dollar project for the construction near the "mountain air" of the balneological complex on thermal waters, which were not there.

During your first interview in position and. O. Governor Sakhalina Kozhemyako promised to make the only marine natural park of Moneron, the only marine natural park in the country. Under Khoroshavin, he had the glory of a privileged cottage, and this fact was very annoyed by the Sakhalinites ... Last year, the number of visitors visited the Moneron - a little more than 100.

Kozhemyako was not the worst governor. He clearly tried to like voters, distributed his puppies through Instagram, rode on Harley, bathed in the hole, pulled himself up on the crossbar, advertising a healthy lifestyle. On Sakhalin, he was not personally seen in corruption scandals.

In general, as experience shows, this is quite enough today to remain the governor - albeit now in another region.

Lyubov Barabashova - journalist, Sakhalin

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