Alexander Golts: "Governors flew"

"All this was quite predictable. The main task of the Kremlin in the upcoming governor's elections in September is not to repeat the disastrous last year, when voting against the current head of the region has become a protest. We must get rid of the spent two or three periods of veterans, which, for obvious reasons, are corruption, unresolved social problems, the decline in living standards is simply attracted by folk dissatisfaction. The time of temporarily acting in 11 of the 16 constituent entities, where the elections are coming up this year, are already ruled by the interim, ”writes the editor -in -chief of the“ daily journal ” .

"The calculation is simple: for five months, the appointment who remained before the elections will not be able to do anything. Neither good nor bad. They will publish some kind of program, once again promise the Golden Mountains subordinate to citizens, we will fire a couple of especially wandered" juggles "-that’s, in fact, and all the changes."

"The main thing that unites these appointments - being relatively young people, they did their successful careers in the Putin’s twentieth anniversary and do not know other forms of government. And, therefore, they have well learned the system of relations between the center and regions. Since the main goal of the Kremlin is guaranteed exclusion of any independence on the ground, the main work of the governor comes down to obtaining finances from Moscow. And its effectiveness is evaluated precisely with the effectiveness and its effectiveness is evaluated precisely with it. This point of view, which implies the ability to invent large -scale (does not matter whether or not) projects for which funds will be allocated, give bribes to federal officials, as well as the ability to blackmail the danger of the loss of notorious stability.

In this sense, there is no big difference between the outgoing generation of governors and the generation of their successors. Both those and others firmly know: the Kremlin is the source of their power, and not a population living in a subordinate territory. As a matter of fact, all this "somber-college", arranged six months before the elections, is intended in order to eliminate the need to choose. "