Governor elections in the Amur Region

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The Amur Region is known for BAM, gold mines and the border with China. The population of the region is 864.5 thousand people, a third of which lives in Blagoveshchensk. The area can conditionally be divided into agricultural south and economically depressed north, where several single -industry towns are located. The Amur Region is a subsidized region, although injections from the federal budget have decreased over the past couple of years, and the volume of investments has increased. This is due to the financing of the construction of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean oil pipeline, the roads of Chita-Khabarovsk, the Lower Burean hydroelectric power station and gold mining facilities. Leading industries - electric power industry, gold and coal mining, wood production. In the region there are Zeisk and Bureskaya hydroelectric power stations, the Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur highways pass through it.

The main problems of the region are reducing the population, a high level of incidence of tuberculosis and a high level of crime associated with the consumption and sale of drugs.

Amur Region is a region with a difficult electoral history. Not a single governor was delayed in his post for more than one period, and some headed the region for only one year. The first “full -fledged” deadline by the governor was the deputy of the local legislative assembly Anatoly Belonogov, who won the elections in 1997. In 2001, Belonogov lost to the communist Leonid Korotkov. Korotkov stayed as the governor until 2007, when the Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case against him on the fact of excess of official powers, and President Putin fired him due to the loss of trust. In 2007, Putin appointed the former director of the Electon plant, a deputy of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Nikolai Kolesov. He was actively criticized by local politicians, mainly from the Communist Party, accused of corruption. Attention was attracted by the repair of his office, which cost the budget about 150 million rubles (the entire budget of Reion in 2008 was a little more than 35 billion rubles). In 2008, Kolesova was resigned. The ex-governor of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug Oleg Kozhemyako was appointed in his place. In 2012, "United Russia" nominated him as a candidate for the post of governor.

In the last December election, the party of power, according to the CEC, gained 43.54% of the vote. The level of power support in Blagoveshchensk is lower than in the region.

Candidate from United Russia is the current governor Oleg Kozhemyako. Against the background of his predecessor, Nikolai Kolesov, Kozhemyako looks like a “strong business executive”, a person with experience in management. Behind him, work as a Primorsky deputy, senator, governor, adviser to the head of the presidential administration. Kozhemyako and his team are merit of the rise in agriculture (Australian cows were even brought to the region). The residents of Kozhemyako were remembered by the willingness to demonstrate a naked torso - then he will plunge into the hole, then he goes to a medical examination with the Minister of Health, then he will tighten on the horizontal bar with the gymnast Svetlana Khorkina.

Opponents: the main competitors of Kozhemyako - candidate from the LDPR State Duma deputy Ivan Abramov and the candidate from the Communist Party Roman Kobyzev . Both are young - 34 and 35 years old. Roman Kobyzev by education is a historian, teaches at the Department of Religious Science at the Amur State University. Ivan Abramov, before getting to the State Duma, was a deputy of the Amur Zachs from 2008 to 2011. Abramov built his campaign that he was born in Blagoveshchensk, and the current governor is a visiting one. The weak side of both the first and second opponent Kozhemyako is the lack of experience in leading positions. The rest of the election candidates are technical.

The election campaign in the Amur Region as a whole can be called calm. At the time of collecting the signatures of municipal deputies, Ivan Abramov and Roman Kobyzev complained about the difficulties arising. After registration as a candidate, Roman Kobyzev stated that the Communist Party is hindered in the placement of agitation in the media. He also sent seven complaints to the Emergency Committee of the Amur region: to rivals, local media and the election man himself.