From the Democrats to the reality. On December 18, the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region should be approved by the new governor of the former leader of the ATP and one of the creators of the opposition "solidarity" Nikita Belykh. The New Times sorted out the details of this transformation
The appointment of Nikita Belykh Governor is the first case in recent years, when the authorities are recruiting the opposition leader to its ranks. President Medvedev submitted the candidacy of the former leader of the ATP to the post of Kirov Governor on December 8, a few days before the constituent congress of the Democratic Movement "Solidarity", one of the founders of which was white. This was preceded by long negotiations, which began simultaneously with negotiations on the surrender of ATP to the Kremlin.
Armchair in exchange for a party
Before meeting with the president, Belykh received an audience with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who also supported the idea of appointing the whites, but did it without much enthusiasm. Belykh describes the negotiation process as follows: “I was told that there is an opportunity to Vyuki by the region, and they asked what I think about such a prospect.” To the prospect of the White was positively taken, after which he was chosen for a long time, and the regional branches of the ATP meanwhile, according to his former colleagues, in friendly rows and, not without the help of the whites, went to the new Prochrevsky project “right -handed”, uniting the ATP, the Democratic and Civilian Force. In the short list, according to The New Times, there were 5 regions. Among them are the Bryansk and Kirov regions, the Republic of Khakassia. Kirov chose Belykh: in the neighborhood there is a Perm Territory, where he once worked as deputy governor for economic issues. Bely's colleagues took the appointment in the opposition movement calmly. In addition to Maria Gaidar, who without abysses stated that the whites sold his soul to the devil. The future governor himself immediately after a meeting with the President flew to Perm to compose the powers of a deputy of the local legislative assembly. He did this exactly the day before the Perm Legislative Assembly voted to amend the amendments to the Constitution. Thus, Belykh escaped a complex dilemma: he, as it were, could no longer vote against the presidential project, but to support amendments to the Constitution, which he had previously spoke out, would mean losing his face.
What awaits him
In the Soviet years, Kirov was known for a huge number of camps and refrigerators Vyatka. But if, after the collapse of the USSR, the release of refrigerators minimized, then the correctional colonies still occupy a significant part of the region. In these places in the 1930s, Vyatlag was created between the city of Kirs of the Kirov region and the village of Krutoborsk, one of the largest divisions of the Gulag.
Today, the Kirov region is a depressive, subsidized region. The federal budget provides 30% of the expenses of the region. As reported by The New Times in Rosstat, the Kirov region takes one of the last places in the rating of regions in terms of investment. Things are worse only on Sakhalin, in the Jewish Autonomous Region, Nenets AO and the Republic of Khakassia. One of the last places-the 69th-Kirov region also occupies in the annual rating of the Rosbusinessconsulting agency by the value of the GRP (gross regional product.-The New Times) per capita. Most of the industrial enterprises of Kirov and the region in the Soviet years worked for the military-industrial complex. This applies to the Kirov machine -building factory, and the Vyatka machine -building enterprise Avitek, and the Lepse electricity -building plant, one of the country's largest enterprises for the manufacture of electrical equipment for civilian and military aircraft, and the Kirovotsky chemical plant.
Chances of winning
According to the former governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Boris Nemtsov, Nikita Belykh has a chance to cope with the situation in the Kirov region, but they are extremely low. “The governor in the 1990s and in the 2000s is two different positions,” says Nemtsov. - Then 50% of the tax collected went to the center, and 50% remained in the region, and now this proportion was 65:35 in favor of the center. In fact, all issues on property, issuing licenses and permits are now the prerogative of Moscow. ” Salaries in the Kirov region, according to Nemtsov, are about one and a half times lower than in neighboring regions. “What are the possibilities of the whites? Only good relations with Putin and Kudrin. Then he will be able to knock out money from the budget for both social programs and on roads, housing and communal services, Nemtsov said in an interview with The New Times. - The new governor needs to create comfortable conditions for business, reduce the staff of officials, and develop infrastructure. We need an image program: "They take less bribes here." According to Nemtsov, who until recently, together with the White, participated in the creation of "solidarity", the federal center will also interfere with the new Kirov governor: “The Kremlin is not very interested in the success of the whites. If he turns out to be a successful governor, it will come out that the opposition works better than the authorities? " Other disadvantages that Nemtsov list: white are not local, which means that he will lose a lot of time to form a team. He does not have time in a crisis. “Plus, Kirov region is a territory of continuous zones of strict regime. There were, of course, political, but there were many killers, rapists. Not all of them, having freed, leave. What creates a certain climate in the region, says Nemtsov. - He cannot even rely on the free power of the convicts. All convicts are federal and fulfill the federal order. If he succeeds, it will be a miracle. ”
Who?
After meeting with President Nikita Belykh, he told reporters that he was not going to join United Russia. The governor’s loyalty to the federal government, according to him, should not be expressed in the presence of a party card. In the Kirov region, the party’s position is not the most powerful: in the latest elections to the United Russia Legislative Assembly, only 28.5% of the vote gained (15% were taken by the Communists and Liberal Democrats of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a party of pensioners and the Agrarian Party that had already ceased to exist in the regional parliament). Now both the local “United Russia” and the new governor were in a rather piquant situation: on the one hand, after the go -ahead from the Kremlin, the deputies from ER Nikita Belykh supported, on the other hand, the former leader leader understands that in the next election he will have to ensure a convincing victory of United Russia. But there is one more point: if Nikita Belykh decides to become the sovereign master of the Kirov region, then he will have to join the most influential person of the region - State Duma deputy Oleg Valenchuk, who controls, according to The New Times, the lion's part of the local business. Valenchuk was elected from the Kirov region and represents the party “United Russia” in the State Duma, as it is easy to guess. So who, whites - a party of power or a party of power - whites, will tell time.
