Rakhimov is not back

The President of Bashkiria Murtaza Rakhimov intends to finalize before the expiration of his authority in 2011, and rumors about his ambulance are not true. This was stated by Interfax the head of the press service of the head of the republic Ayrat Murzagaleev.

"All reports about the supposedly ambulance of President Bashkiria Murtazi Rakhimov are only speculation and rumors, and nothing more," Murzagaleev said. According to him, "there is absolutely no reason to change the leadership of Bashkiria", since in the republic "in the context of the financial crisis, economic and social stability remains."

Rakhimov was reported about the upcoming resignation of Vedomosti on Tuesday with reference to sources in Ufa and the Kremlin. According to the newspaper, Rakhimov should leave his post this week or a little later. Bashkiria will be headed by the chairman of the housing committee of the St. Petersburg Administration Unis Lukmanov or a member of the Federation Council Rudik Iskuzhin, saying sources of Vedomosti in the Volga Permanent Protection and in the Bashkir leadership.

Lukmanov refused to comment on this information. Iskuzhin said that he knew nothing about his nomination.

The former head of the administration of the President of Bashkiria Radiy Khabirov, according to Vedomosti, does not have applicants for the post of head of the republic. Now he holds the post of deputy head of the internal policy of the Administration of the President of Russia.

In January, Rosbalt reported that the Volga Plenipotentiary of Grigory Rapot sent a list of three candidates for the post of head of Bashkiria. In addition to the Iskuzhin, his colleague on the Federation Council Ralif Safin and the head of the Troika-Dialog investment company Andrei Sharonov appeared on the list of the Federation Council.

At the end of December, the Bashkir press wrote that Rakhimov will voluntarily resign “for health reasons” after his 75th anniversary in February. He has been the post of President of Bashkiria since 1993.

According to observers, by the end of 2008 the pressure of the federal center on the leadership of Bashkiria intensified. In the fall, a campaign began to replace loyal murtaza Rakhimov by the leaders of the power and judicial authorities of the republic. In particular, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria Rafail Divaev, who was considered the right hand of the president of the republic, was dismissed. At the end of November, he took the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Bashkiria. In December, large -scale searches were held in the Office for the Protection of the Objects of the authorities of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria, which, including the protection of the President of the Republic. A criminal case has been opened under an article on the illegal turnover of weapons, ammunition and explosives.

According to Vedomosti, in the near future AFK "System" will fully take control of the key enterprises of the Bashkir TEK.