Message of the regions

The President’s message to the Federal Assembly, as a rule, is one of the most important events of the political season. But few people know that such a practice is in the regions, governors also turn to their parliaments annually. But these texts are much more difficult to analyze, at least due to their lower significance and multiplicity.

Nevertheless, experts of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation analyzed the messages of the governors and came to the conclusion that in their messages they almost do not talk about politics and even pay less attention to social topics, the economy comes to first place. About this writes "Kommersant".

Head of Mordovia with the administration / e-mordovia.ru

The experts of the Fund believe that the “most striking”, “the most problematic” were the speeches of the heads of Mordovia, Tatarstan, Perm, Stavropol Territory, Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Leningrad, Samara regions, St. Petersburg, the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. “The most pale” and “complimentating” they found the epistles of the leaders of the Republic of Altai, Ingushetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, Mari El, Chuvashia, Krasnodar Territory, Kaluga, Novgorod Regions, Crimea and Sevastopol.

“Mention of the presidential election is most often formal. The topics of the transparency of the elective process, the evolution of the electoral system are not mentioned, ”the report says. Also, there are almost no topics in the governor's messages dedicated to the “problems of the relationship of society and power”. As a rule, appeals to domestic political topics are reduced to the references of “individual parties, as well as talk about various public initiatives, NPOs, and volunteer movement”.

State Council meeting / kremlin.ru

The author of the report Mikhail Vinogradov noted that in recent years a situation has been established in the country when it is customary to talk about politics as follows: “There is only one politician in our country” (the president was meant in mind). The population, according to the expert, does not really think about what a policy is, how it can influence the position of your enterprise or city. “It was partly beneficial to the governors not to encourage the discussion about domestic politics in order to act in the role of the only politician in the region. The general tonality of the speeches of governors in politics and economics was the same: "There is no need to argue about programs and ideologies, there is just ours - the right, effective management model." "

In the reports, governors emphasize the role of the center in providing regions of various kinds of resources and preferences. In some cases, a mild indication of the non -productivity of individual parts of the Center’s decisions is allowed, which require “extraordinary steps” from the regions.

Vladimir Putin at a press conference / kremlin.ru

Experts explain the fact that governors pay more and more attention to the economy by the fact that the “significance of the search for their own sources of self -development” has grown for the regions. “Opportunities for new promises are very limited, and the level of public expectations from social policy is reduced, the contrast between the social appetites of citizens and the capabilities of the state is growing,” the report says. In addition, almost all governors talk about the processing of garbage, while they pronounce "general words about the relevance of the problem." The topic is really relevant, active protests on the organization of landfills this year took place in the Moscow, Yaroslavl, Arkhangelsk regions.

The report also shows the most vivid quotes of governors. True, given the features of the genre, even they do not look too incendiary. For example, the head of the Tyumen region, Alexander Moor, said that "the second wave of Tyumen modernization will be even more powerful than the first." “Our president’s superior victory has further strengthened public unity in the country, the Russian people rallied even more closely around the Putin strategy of a powerful breakdown in socio-economic development,” said Alexander Nikitin, head of the Tambov region.