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Times have come cleaner
Vladivostok is now the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District. What does it change?
On the afternoon of December 13, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the transfer of the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District (Far Eastern Federal District) from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok. It is understood that now Anton Vaino and his team should provide “organizational and staffing events” to transfer the capital's functions from one city to another. It is important to note that they began to talk about the transfer of the capital a couple of months ago, when the governor’s re-election were appointed in the Primorsky Territory, and the candidate of the Candidate of the Samom, Oleg Kozhemyako, proclaimed the transfer of one of the points of his election campaign. In addition, Khabarovsk, whose authorities were against the transfer from the very beginning, did not go through the loyalty verification: there, during the election on September 9, the candidate from United Russia won, but a nominee from the LDPR Sergey Furgal.
The transfer of the capital of the region is the history in the domestic agenda is extremely infrequent, so it is curious to understand that this will change for the residents of both the new capital and Khabarovsk, which has lost the status of the main district of the center. “New” asked the economist and political geographer why and who needs all these procedures, as well as how the situation of the townspeople will improve/worsen.
Natalia Zubarevich
economist
"It was necessary to show how cool Kozhemyako"
- Nothing, nothing will change. This is a political decision, relax. The apparatus of the embassy is small, it creates a few jobs, the Far East Development Fund is also there ... The conversation is about several hundred people of the administration, with service personnel, maybe more [who need to be provided with work and transported], but on the other hand, the maintenance personnel will be recruited in Vladivostok. We have an envoy to engage in investments, but somehow he doesn’t really succeed. So, economically in Vladivostok, nothing will change.
Khabarovsk, of course, will be upset: he ceased to be the capital of the federal district. People do not perceive such things very well, this is understandable. But this is a policy: under the elections, in order to please the population, they show how cool Kozhemyako has agreed, now they are the capital. Everything is clear how twice two.
Dmitry Oreshkin
Political geographer
"The region will still degrade"
-Firstly, the transfer is associated with the high concern of Vladimir Putin in connection with the problems of the Pacific region. Defense activity is growing there, China is developing rapidly, and the United States is also active, some changes occur in the DPRK. Vladivostok is still the main defense point in the Far East, and Vladimir Putin is a military man in mentality.
On the other hand, nothing significant is worth it, the region will still degrade, people will still leave. Maybe it will be easier there, maybe it will turn out to be more efficient to manage the financial flow from the center, control expenses so that it is stolen and so on. In relation to the development of the territory, this does not mean anything.
As for Khabarovsk, in a sense, it removes his share of self -confidence, self -awareness. Now he will perceive himself as an even more obvious province on the outskirts of the empire.
This is bad for Khabarovsk, but not good for Vladivostok.
This transfer, of course, increases the political weight of Kozhemyako - Putin trusts him more. Apparently, even more serious resources related to defense will now be pumped to Vladivostok. But there will be dual power: on the one hand, it is necessary that the envoy to Kozhemyako follow, so that he would not take excess, but Kozhemyako will have to look at this very head of the federal district. From the point of view of vertical management, this is wrong.