Kazus Kobylkin

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the Legislative Assembly of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug the candidacy of Dmitry Kobylkin to give him the powers of the regional governor. Earlier, the United Russia party offered the president four candidates for the post of head of the region, including the current governor Yuri Neelov. However, Neelov, who has been led by the Autonomous Okrug for 16 years, said that he did not intend to stay in this position for the next term.

Political scientist Alexander Kynev called the decision of the Russian president on the appointment of Kobylkin by the governor of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug somewhat unexpected:

- It is quite obvious that in the list of applicants, who was voiced, except for the governor of Neelov, Mr. Kobylkin was not considered a favorite. And not a single analyst called him as such. This is a young man, born in 1971 - that is, it will be one of the youngest governors. At the same time, he came to the region in the 90s. His work in the 90s was connected with Purneftegazgeology. He was the director of a number of oil and gas companies. Since 2002, Kobylkin is the first deputy head of the district, then the head of the district; That is, it is quite obvious that he never led anything more than the district, and then it immediately to the governors. For the entire time of the appointments of governors in the new procedure, since 2005, there has been not a single case when the head of the region was appointed the head of the region. Yes, of course, the Purovsky district is important from the point of view of the activities of a number of oil companies, but this is not a key area in the entire district.

The company, which was headed by the administration, Mr. Kobylkin, is closely connected with the famous so -called independent supporter of gas - Novatek. With "Novatek" over the past years there have been interesting changes. On the one hand, the company's dependence on Gazprom intensified. The press reported that the structure of shareholders was changing there, that new owners came there - in particular, it was about an increase in the share in Novateka of a large entrepreneur Gennady Timchenko (Gunvor). The press wrote a lot about him - a well -known figure, closely connected, including Gazprom.

- Why, after all, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dwelled at Dmitry Kobylkin?

- Perhaps one of the reasons is the connection of the current Novatek with the Gennady Timchenko. We have no doubt that he will be appointed. Although it will probably be very difficult to find federal experts who have ever seen Mr. Kobylkin's eyes outside Yamal.

We can say that some system cannot be seen in all these appointments. On the one hand, we are told that there is supposedly the system: people from the outside come to the strategic regions, they can not be appointed local to strategic, etc. Nevertheless, we see that the decisions are very, very different. Even on a district scale, Kobylkin was not any significant figure: well, the head of one of the districts, just. This solution looked generally spontaneous and in a single strategy exactly not fit. It seems that the process of selecting candidates is vinaigrette, when in each case different mechanisms work: there is simply no single strategy. They are trying to say that it is, but we see that it is not.