February Governor -Paid

Why does the presidential administration change the heads of regions? The specifics of the personnel policy in Kirienkovsky sorted to the New Times

The team of the new Kremlin curator of domestic policy, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, began to operate. In the regions - the resignation of governors. So far, they are fired by those whose terms of work has already expired and who had to go to direct elections. The Perm governor Viktor Basargin and the head of Buryatia Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn left their posts. There are no many chances to save the chair - the governors of the Ryazan, Novgorod regions and Karelia. It is not security forces that many expected, but relatively young technocrats managers are being replaced.

Perm experiments

The Governor of the Perm Territory Viktor Basargin several days ago almost had no doubt that he would run for the election of the head of the region. He acted sweepingly - he carried out the reform of the government, which he personally headed, having fired Prime Minister Gennady Tushnolobov. Assigned by the Perm head in 2012, Basargin then went to a formal decrease: before that, the official was the Federal Minister of Regional Development. In Perm, he was immediately perceived as a stranger. Although those who can be called conservatives at first had positive expectations. Former governor Oleg Chirkunov was considered too liberal, many annoyed, for example, experiments on modern art, conducted in the region by the political strategist and galleryist Marat Gelman with the filing of Chirkunov. “Festivals, exhibitions were perceived by many, people believed that it would be better to put money on a social,” says NT on the condition of anonymity one of the local politicians. Conservative Basargin quickly stopped the experiments, but the joy of it was short -lived. Perm officials in the administration of the region began to be changed by colleagues of the new governor of the Ministry of Regional Development, they began to press the locals. The Perm from the new governor was tired very quickly, Viktor Basargin held more than half of his term in an atmosphere of regular rumors about his resignation, various governor ratings were heated the situation, where the Perm head found up almost immediately on outsider positions.

The desires were not destined to come true-on Monday Viktor Basargin gathered journalists for a press conference, where he announced that he wanted to make room for young people

The political opponents of Basargin also did not doze off, they were grouped around the deputy and entrepreneur Dmitry Skivanov, who was in good relations with Oleg Chirkunov, now living in France. The influence in the region was also preserved by another former governor, now the head of the president’s envoy in the Far Eastern District, Yuri Trutnev. The rush of confrontation was the elections to the State Duma and the regional parliament. Skivanov controlled the Perm branches of the Duma parties, which regularly criticized the governor. In addition, he put up his candidates for the primaries of United Russia in both parliaments - Skivanov’s people opposed the politicians who were supported by Viktor Basargin. Finally, Skivanov won the preliminary vote of the party in power to the place of the head of the EP list in the State Duma along the edge. Everything was heated to the limit, but after the intervention from Moscow, Skivans chose to run in a single -mandate district. Victor Basargin was the first number in the list of United Russia to the Legislative Assembly. The party in power received a good result, the governor was inspired and announced his intention to run for the next term.

The desires were not destined to come true-on February 6, Viktor Basargin gathered journalists for a press conference, where he announced that he wanted to make room for young people.

The young did not force themselves to wait for themselves - the region was headed by the head of the Moscow City Hall Department, Maxim Reshetnikov. Unlike Basargin in the region, he was born and for a long time worked in the administrations of Yuri Trutnev and Oleg Chirkunov, he eventually headed the administration of the latter. By the way, for Victor Basargin, the reshetnikov was also not completely alien. After all, Basargin was always considered the man of Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, and Reshetnikov just worked at the city hall. While the new head of the region promises to the officials that they will not be fired for no reason, the chief local oppositionist Dmitry Skivanov in his Facebook reports a long -standing good relationship with Maxim Reshetnikov.

Own for Buryatia

The Buryatsky head of Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn and Viktor Basargin were united by little - their powers would have expired in May of this year, both former governors were eager to go for a new term. But if for Basargin it would be only the second, then for Nagovitsyn - the third. The head of Buryatia managed to get an appointment twice. The two governors had another common feature - Vladimir Putin put them to manage regions that were completely alien to officials. Unlike Basargin, Nagovitsyn was appointed the head of the subject not from the federal, but from the regional level - he was the prime minister in the Government of the Tomsk Region. The alien from the side in the national region (according to various estimates, the share of the Buryat population ranges from 30% to 40%) took no enthusiasm. The Cells of the Communist Party and “Fair Russia” were headed by representatives of the indigenous population, clearly dissatisfied with the Varangian. Nagovitsyn was reassigned in 2012, but this did not reassure opponents. In 2015, rallies were held in the capital of the Republic of Ulan-Ude for the resignation of the head. In the same year, he was shifted from the post of speaker Khural Matvey Gershevich - an ardent supporter of the governor. Not only the Communists and Socialist -Revolutionaries voted for his resignation, but also non -partisan, and even United Russia.

Nagovitsyn, according to the interlocutors of NT from among the republican deputies, was not going to leave - on the contrary, the governor wanted to get an extension of authority again. But when the next morning after the resignation of Basargin, the head of Buryatia appointed his press conference, they were already waiting for care. “If you remember, the legislation says that there should be two terms, and I worked out the full two terms. Formally, there is an opportunity to go for a third term, but the situation suggests that the republic needs changes. There should be a rotation, ”substantiated either his or Kremlin decision by Nagovitsyn.

“Formally, there is an opportunity to go for a third term, but the situation suggests that the republic needs changes. There must be rotation "

The acting head of the republic Putin was appointed by the deputy minister of transport of the federal government Alexei Tsydenov - by the name of the local, but in Buryatia never lived. The official came from the Trans -Baikal Territory, made a career in federal departments, from 2006 to 2017 he worked in the Russian government, including during the premier of Vladimir Putin.

A pair of press conferences with dismissal forced the Belgorod Governor Yevgeny Savchenko, who was also to be elected, who was also not going to go out to go to the Belgorod Governor.

Towards the election

Political scientist Alexander Kynev notes that for 2017 there were elections of the leaders of the most problematic regions - out of 14 subjects where the campaigns should take place, only three leaders participated in direct elections in 2012. The rest are the latest representatives of the appointment. “They did not let everyone into early campaigns for various reasons-someone had a conflict with local elites, someone did not go well in Moscow,” the expert argues. He regards new appointments as the Kremlin’s intention to play “update, a new technocratic wave”. “People are shown: there is a president, and there are young managers whom he promotes. On the one hand, such officials are better than security forces - they understand in economics, management, on the other, these are not public politicians, and the governors should have such a skill, ”Kynev is sure. As the pluses of the same Maxim Reshetnikov, he calls the local origin and knowledge of the situation in the region. “But they talk about him as a tough leader whom the local elites, perhaps, would not want to,” Kynev points out.

Political strategist Dmitry Fetisov expects that the election of new temporary leaders of the Perm Territory and Buryatia will not be simple. “Both Reshetnikov and Tsydenov belong to the category of non -public leaders with ties in federal circles and having extensive experience in managerial and administrative work in their relatively young years. They have to gain public policy experience and win the elections, faced with hard opposition of local elites in their regions, ”Fetisov predicts. He also notes that the chapters began to resign according to the new scenario - the governors themselves announce the dismissal several hours before the Kremlin announced the candidate of the successor. “Previously, the departure of the chapters at his own request was announced by the Kremlin, who immediately announced the candidate’s candidacy,” the political strategist argues, stipulating that it was too early to talk about the “new style” of the presidential administration in connection with governor's resignations.

“At first, new leaders are perceived well, but then they begin to demand real affairs, improvements. The effect of the honeymoon leaves as quickly as it comes "

Also, three more governors have long been considered candidates for flights. The head of the Ryazan region Oleg Kovalev managed to appoint in 2008, not without problems to be elected in 2012 (Igor Morozov had to be allocated in exchange for the withdrawal of the Senator position in exchange for the “Patriots of Russia”), the age of the chapter of 68 also forces to think about retired. The local media in the spring also discussed the candidacy of the successor - Andrei Yarin, who worked as head of the regional government under the former governor Georgy Shpak. However, Yarin became the head of the Kremlin domestic policy.

He was appointed in 2007 and elected in 2012 the Novgorod head Sergei Mitin. The officials of his government fell under criminal cases, and he himself stubbornly (and to no avail) tried to shift the chosen mayor of Veliky Novgorod Yuri Bobryshev.

The Karelian governor Alexander Khudilainen is glorified by pressure on the opposition - Galina Shirshina (apple helped her), and critics of the head of the republic, the speaker of the City Council of Petrozavodsk Oleg Fokin, the deputy of the Legislative Assembly, Devlet Alikhanov, the leader of the local “Yabloko, Vasily Popov, lost its post.

Alexander Kynev calls four more problematic regions: the Primorsky Territory, where the environment of the governor Vladimir Miklushevsky fell under criminal prosecution; The Ivanovo region, where the head Pavel Konkov was faced with a similar problem. In addition, the head of Yakutia, Yegor Borisov, was not the most worthy result, and the Samara Governor Nikolai Merkushkin not only became famous for his excessively bright performances throughout the country, but also fell into scandals with the criminal prosecution of associates.

The time of governor's resignations, according to Alexander Kynev, is no coincidence. “The year remains before the presidential election, the electoral machines, including the administrative resource, should be debugged. In the elections to the State Duma in 2011, the party of power received a bad result where the governors were recently appointed, ”the political scientist notes. At the same time, newcomers may encounter problems very soon. “Usually, the first time new leaders are perceived well, but then they begin to demand real affairs, improvements. The effect of the honeymoon leaves as quickly as it comes, ”summarizes Alexander Kynev.