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Head of the region, banker and deputies

The first six candidates Sverdlovsk governors: what are they known for and how much do they earn?

Acting Governor of Sverdlovsk Evgeny Kuyvashev Yaromir Romanov

IN Sverdlovsk region six parties have already decided on candidates for governor (elections will take place on September 10). "United Russia" nominated acting governor Evgeny Kuyvashev, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - manager of PJSC Plus Bank Alexei Parfenov, the LDPR - State Duma deputy Igor Toroschin, "A Just Russia" - deputy of the Legislative Assembly Dmitry Ionin, "Greens" - deputy of the Yekaterinburg Duma Konstantin Kiselev, " Russian Party pensioners for social justice" - deputy of the Yekaterinburg Duma Dmitry Sergin..

Evgeny Kuyvashev, 46 years old, acting governor of the Sverdlovsk region

The consignment: "United Russia".

Evgeny Kuyvashev has headed the Sverdlovsk region since May 2012: President Vladimir Putin nominated him to the Legislative Assembly, and the regional parliament approved his appointment as governor. In April 2017, a month before the expiration of Kuyvashev’s term of office, Putin signed a decree appointing him as acting head of the region. This was perceived as support for the Kremlin in the upcoming elections, and Kuyvashev immediately announced his intention to participate in the campaign. Before becoming governor, Kuyvashev worked as the Ural plenipotentiary, and before that he headed the administrations of Tobolsk and Tyumen.

During the next gubernatorial term, Kuyvashev wants the Sverdlovsk region to become one of the top three regions of the country in terms of socio-economic indicators, along with Moscow and St. Petersburg. We are talking about developing infrastructure, industry, and attracting investment. “We have done a lot in five years. We built more than 10.5 million square meters of housing, the investments attracted amounted to one annual GRP - 1.9 trillion rubles,” Kuyvashev said in an interview with the site about the achievements of his team.

Income: in 2016, Kuyvashev earned 3.33 million rubles. He owns an apartment with an area of ​​144 square meters, and he also owns a third apartment with an area of ​​131.7 square meters. Kuyvasheva also uses an apartment with an area of ​​118.7 square meters. He doesn't have a car and often walks to work. At the same time, he owns a trailer and a VX 700 jet ski. His wife’s income in 2016 amounted to 9.96 million rubles.

Alexey Parfenov, 44 years old, Managing Director of PJSC Plus Bank

The consignment: Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Muscovite Alexey Parfenov is practically unknown in the Sverdlovsk region. He first appeared on the regional political agenda last summer, when the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated him as a candidate for the State Duma in Kamensk-Uralsky district No. 169. But then he lost to the United Russia candidate Lev Kovpak. Parfenov has not yet voiced the theses of his gubernatorial campaign.

Parfenov's Facebook page

Income: in 2015, Parfenov earned 7.9 million rubles from Plus Bank. He owns four land plots (1.7 thousand sq. m, 20 thousand sq. m, 45.5 thousand sq. m, 31 thousand sq. m) and an unfinished construction site (805.7 square meters) in the Smolensk region, two apartments in Moscow (36.9 square meters and 207.4 square meters). He also has several trailers, a snowmobile and a Toyota Tundra.

Igor Toroschin, 31 years old, State Duma deputy

The consignment: LDPR.

Igor Toroschin was born in Irbit, graduated from the Ural Financial and Legal Institute in 2008, and in the fall of 2009 joined the LDPR. From 2011 to 2016 he was a deputy of the Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly, in particular, he was deputy chairman of the committee on legislation. In 2016, he entered the State Duma on party lists.

In his official biography it is indicated that he is a member of “parliamentary friendship groups” with parliamentarians from the USA, Brazil, China and Japan. According to the State Duma website, he is a co-author of four bills, the final decision on which has not yet been made. We are talking, for example, about a ban on “stimulating the sale of alcoholic products,” including a ban on discounts on this type of product. Another bill is related to the abolition of the requirement to locate agricultural markets in permanent buildings.

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Income: in 2016, Igor Toroschin earned 3.4 million rubles. His wife - 146.36 thousand rubles. Together they own an apartment with an area of ​​74.5 square meters; Toroschin has a service deputy apartment with an area of ​​87 square meters and another one with an area of ​​50.1 square meters. The parliamentarian drives a Mazda 3.

Dmitry Ionin, 32 years old, deputy of the Legislative Assembly

The consignment: "A Just Russia".

Dmitry Ionin began to gain popularity in Sverdlovsk politics after being elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2011. As co-chair public organization“For fair housing and communal services” Ionin deals a lot with problems of housing and communal services, including sorting out complaints from residents of the region about the Capital Repairs Fund, about management companies, about the actions of the authorities.

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Income: in 2015, Ionin earned 2.09 million rubles. He owns an apartment with an area of ​​109.6 square meters and a quarter of another apartment with a total area of ​​87 square meters. He also owns a Toyota Highlander. Ionin's wife earned 358 thousand rubles.

Konstantin Kiselev, 54 years old, deputy of the Yekaterinburg Duma

The consignment: "Greens".

Experienced political strategist Konstantin Kiselev entered the Yekaterinburg Duma in 2013 as a member of the opposition team of the Civic Platform party. Over time, he stopped collaborating with this party, but in the wake of aggressive patriotic sentiments, Kiselyov’s position, which often did not coincide with the position of the authorities, was repeatedly criticized.

Jaromir Romanov

As Kiselev explained in an interview with the site, he went to the gubernatorial elections to declare liberal and democratic values. For example, he promises to talk about the need to return direct elections of mayors and the abolition of the municipal filter in gubernatorial elections.

Income: in 2016, Kiselev earned 1.26 million rubles. Of his property, he has only two apartments with an area of ​​130.1 square meters and 41.2 square meters.

Dmitry Sergin, 49 years old, deputy of the Yekaterinburg Duma

The consignment: "Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice."

Dmitry Sergin was elected several times as a deputy of the Yekaterinburg Duma, starting in 1996. He was considered a person close to the city administration, for whose ideology the current head of the governor’s administration, Vladimir Tungusov, was responsible. Now Sergin works in the city economy and budget commissions. His position during voting still often coincides with the position of the city administration.

Jaromir Romanov

Income: in 2016, Sergin earned 3.35 million rubles. He owns a third apartment with an area of ​​43.9 square meters and a Mercedes-Benz GLK car. His wife, who earned 287.4 thousand rubles last year, has another apartment with an area of ​​101 square meters and a garage.

The list of gubernatorial candidates may be expanded; for example, Yabloko plans to hold a conference this weekend. It is also possible that Patriots of Russia and Rodina will take part in the campaign. After being nominated at party conferences, candidates submit documents to the regional election commission. Then they have to overcome the municipal filter by collecting a minimum of 126 signatures local deputies or directly elected heads in 55 municipalities. The collection of signatures must be completed by the evening of July 26. Only after this, the election commission, after checking all the documents, will decide on the registration of candidates for the elections.

The results of today's elections will be known by Monday morning. This concludes our broadcast; follow the “News” section for further updates.

22:20, 10.09.2017

Medvedev: the September 10 elections were held “at a high level”

“We can testify that the elections - and there were many of them on this single voting day - took place in our country and were held at a high level,” the Prime Minister said at a conference call with the election headquarters of regional branches of United Russia.

Medvedev noted that “this time the elections were not combined with the federal campaign, but in general this did not affect their quality, and in almost every region our voters showed respect for the elections and quite high activity - somewhere more, somewhere less, but everywhere the elections were held at a good level.”

22:15, 10.09.2017

Moscow. Municipal deputy from Yabloko, Evgeny Kurakin, told Novaya that in Moscow at polling station 667, in a secret room at the precinct where observers were refused entry, books of voters from past elections with sample signatures and passport data were found. After its discovery, the chairman of the Maryina Roshcha TEC tried to destroy the books and disappeared from the building. Kurakin said that a task force was waiting on the spot.

21:54, 10.09.2017

Moscow. Dmitry Gudkov said that it is already known that the headquarters candidates are leading in several polling stations in Khamovniki, Basmanny, Mitino, Pechatniki and in the Presnensky district.

“It’s too early to talk about the results, but the areas where we are ahead are already visible,” says the politician.

21:43, 10.09.2017

Political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin: a common feature of the elections is citizens’ disbelief that something can be changed

A distinctive feature of these elections was the general passivity of the population, which is convenient for the authorities and has no prospects for the country, says political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin.

Moscow. According to the expert, the low turnout strategy worked in the capital. “For Muscovites, the elections turned out to be uninteresting and unimportant,” Oreshkin said. “This does not apply to the controlled electorate (military personnel, activists, pensioners, hospital patients, etc.), whose representatives traditionally vote for the party in power and bring in about 10%.” In conditions of low turnout, these votes become decisive.

According to Oreshkin, “alternative” candidates have chances in the central districts of Moscow, in the Academic, Universitetsky and Gagarinsky districts, as well as along Leningradsky Prospekt.

Regions. Oreshkin said that home-based and early voting will bring about 5% to pro-government candidates, which is a significant percentage in conditions of low turnout. According to him, under “normal conditions” home-based voting is 0.5% of all voters, but in these elections the share of “home-based voters” will be a significant part.

21:16, 10.09.2017

A resident of Lefortovo posted a video of young people in the yard independently filling out ballots for home voting and throwing them into a portable box.

Gubernatorial candidates from United Russia are leading in Buryatia, Sverdlovsk and Tomsk regions

• Alexey Tsydenov(Buryatia) - 87.73%
• Evgeniy Kuyvashev(Sverdlovsk region) - 62.02%
• Sergey Zhvachkin(Tomsk region) - 56.94%

20:47, 10.09.2017

Moscow. The head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, said that the majority of complaints about the CEC hotline came from Moscow.

“Across Moscow, 523 requests were received,” Pamfilova said. In the Moscow region -120 messages.

20:05, 10.09.2017

Polling stations in Moscow and other Russian cities have been closed. The average turnout across the country was less than 30%

Yaroslavl. In municipal elections, voters were offered 200 rubles per vote. Aleksey Sovin, an activist of the “Russia Chooses” project, who works as an observer at PEC No. 162, told RBC about this.

“Voters told us that in a car parked near school No. 13, where PEC No. 162 is located, they were offering money for voting. It was around 3 p.m.,” he said.

“Information about the car from which voters were bribed was transferred to the police,” he added.

19:52, 10.09.2017

Leningrad region. An observer in Kuzmolovo wrote a statement to the police because of the minibuses that transported voters to the polling station every half hour. This happened after the man talked to a passenger on such a bus.

He asked whether voters themselves rent vehicles. The woman replied that people came to her and asked her to vote for the United Russia candidate Sergei Pavlov in the elections. Observer Svyatoslav Boynov wanted to ask the unknown woman about the details, but she, according to him, got scared and ran away. A member of the IKMO first turned to the chairman of PEC 140. There they explained to him that buses were needed to transport residents who were located just a kilometer from the site. This explanation did not suit Boynov and he turned to the 87th police station.

At another polling station, member of PEC No. 141 Petr Trofimov filmed a drunk voter who came to vote accompanied by a heavily built young man. Trofimov asked the police officer why a man in such a state was allowed to vote, to which he received an unexpected answer: a young woman with the rank of captain explained that “today is a holiday, and there is nothing like that.” She called on the PEC member to be “more positive.”

19:25, 10.09.2017

Moscow. Observers of Gudkov's headquarters report that the General Staff also votes on cameras of PEC 9 on Arbat. Headquarters employees called the CEC hotline, where they were connected to a “competent specialist in this matter.” This specialist said that there is a decision from the Moscow City Election Commission that some recordings from cameras will be of poor quality. But on hotline The Moscow Electoral Commission said that such a solution exists only where the military votes, and hung up.

The Ministry of Defense reported on the high turnout of the military: they are not forced to vote

Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov RBC that mass military voting in some areas in Moscow occurs without coercion.

“We have places where we are doomed to deliver military personnel en masse; we have no other option. Of course, there are such cases, but such cases are isolated,” he said.

Earlier, Kommersant, citing Evgeniy Khvostik, a member of the election commission in the Moscow Sokolniki district, reported that military personnel were voting en masse at polling station 1272. According to Khvostik, at the station there was an additional list of military men who “went to the same table.”

Former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and journalist Sergei Gulyaev published on Twitter photographs of the National Guard voting in the village of Lebyazhye at polling station 627.

New information about turnout in Moscow

The turnout at the municipal elections in Moscow by 18:00 was 12%, said the head of the Moscow City Election Commission, Valentin Gorbunov.

And today five million people came to celebrate City Day in the capital.

19:11, 10.09.2017

Human rights activists ask police to check reports of “service” for drunk voters

The Association for the Protection of Electoral Rights "Civil Control" demands verification of reports that drunk voters are being brought to polling stations in the Ryazan and Irkutsk regions, RIA Novosti reports.

Co-chairman of the association Alexander Brod emphasized that if the information is confirmed “and it is established that these actions were deliberately planned by the candidates,” then human rights activists will “ask the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation to review the voting results, and remove the organizers of these “carousels” from the elections.”

Earlier today, observers reported that in the city of Vikhorevka, “half-drunk” voters are being actively transported to polling stations near school No. 10.

“They settle accounts with voters with vodka. Observers spotted this particular car near the indicated areas,” writes Golos activist Nadezhda Zaitseva.

Sevastopol. Members of the French Parliament Thierry Mariani and Nicolas Duic arrived to observe the elections of the city governor. They are both known for their pro-Russian views and calls for the European Union to recognize Russian jurisdiction in Crimea. French parliamentarians visited four polling stations. According to Mariani, elections in Sevastopol “are taking place under normal conditions, they are just as democratic as the others.”

Let us note that both Mariani and Duik are prohibited from entering the territory of Ukraine. Official Kyiv today announced its non-recognition of the elections taking place in Sevastopol.

18:31, 10.09.2017

The Central Election Commission has not yet identified any violations during the elections that could affect their results.

Central Election Commission press secretary Maya Grishina said that the Central Election Commission has not yet seen any violations that could affect the voting results.

“We have had many requests, they cannot be called complaints, they relate to the situation on the ground, that is, what the applicants believe, the violations that they see. Including, we received 318 written complaints on September 9-10, more than half of which were for illegal campaigning on the day of silence. With photographs and leaflets attached,” TASS quotes him as saying.

In some places, according to her, facts were revealed that required decisions by precinct and territorial commissions to recognize the ballots of early voters as invalid.

18:25, 10.09.2017

Astrakhan. Two young people doused the candidate for deputy of the Astrakhan City Duma from the United Russia party, Alexander Tukaev, with green paint. The incident occurred near polling station No. 235. The police are investigating.

According to Tukaev, among the attackers he recognized a representative of the headquarters of another candidate.

On Single Voting Day in the Astrakhan region, additional elections of deputies to the regional Duma are held (in one single-mandate constituency), city ​​council Astrakhan (in two single-mandate districts) and heads of several municipalities.

18:25, 10.09.2017

A criminal case has been opened in the Leningrad region for bribery of voters

In the Leningrad region, a criminal case was opened into bribery of voters at a polling station in Kuzmolovo. It was previously reported that voters were bribed under the guise of concluding agreements to organize observation at the polling station.

18:15, 10.09.2017

Elections in Vladivostok took place with low voter turnout

In the seaside capital, where elections of city council deputies took place on September 10, polling stations have already been closed and vote counting has begun. The first results will be announced on Monday, however, according to preliminary data from the city election commission, the turnout did not exceed 15%.

United Russia is in the lead (about 36%), followed by the LDPR (24%), and in third place is the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (14%), but these data may still undergo serious changes as ballots are counted.

During the “early term”, facts of transportation and bribery of voters were revealed, and law enforcement agencies are now dealing with them. A number of polling stations reported that voters, when they came to vote, discovered that, according to the documents, they had allegedly already made their choice. A member of the regional election commission with the right to an advisory vote, Alexander Samsonov, spoke about the incident at polling station No. 831: during the counting of votes, an as yet unidentified man attacked the representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Olga Samsonova, snatched her phone, which she was using to film the counting process, and threw it out the window.

18:11, 10.09.2017

In Moscow's Airport district, early voting was declared invalid

Moscow. In the Airport district, early voting for municipal elections is invalid. According to the head of the Moscow City Election Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, members of the commission “mixed up the envelopes for some of the polling stations.”

18:02, 10.09.2017

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation accused the United Russia candidate of bribing voters

Novosibirsk region. The Novosibirsk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation published on its website audio recordings of conversations with people who offered to vote for the candidate for the Legislative Assembly from United Russia, Alexander Boyko, for 250 rubles.

An employee of the headquarters of the candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Sergei Klestov called one of the phone numbers of the “buyers” of votes and received instructions on exactly how to proceed to receive the reward.

The buyers demonstrated the agitator's agreement concluded with Alexander Boyko, but, noticing that they were being filmed, they left.

Moscow. Open Russia activist Mikhail Konev said that while he was at the territorial election commission of the Donskoy district of Moscow, unknown persons punctured the tires of his car.

Sevastopol. Observers from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were removed from polling stations No. 132 and No. 134 in the Leninsky district of the city.
As Novaya Gazeta was told at the Communist election headquarters, an observer from the party was removed from polling station No. 132 for filing a complaint against the chairman of the election commission, Nelly Degtyar.

“According to information from our observer, Degtyar went with voters to a separate room, after which they went to the ballot boxes.” Nelly Degtyar herself, in a conversation with a correspondent, said that the observer was removed by a court decision for conducting video recording, including for filming documents with personal data of voters.

At polling station No. 134, an observer from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was also removed due to photographing voter lists. The manager spoke about this working group“For fair elections” Anatoly Lavrik. According to him, the violation on the part of the communist observer was officially recorded, and therefore he will be taken to court.

17:32, 10.09.2017

Yabloko demanded the resignation of the head of the Moscow City Election Commission

The party demands the resignation of the Chairman of the Moscow City Election Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, for deliberately reducing turnout in the elections in Moscow.

“For the first time in the history of the election campaign in Moscow, voters did not receive any official information about elections. The CEC took care of this a few days before the elections, but it was too late. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin bears political responsibility for the deliberate decrease in turnout, and organizational responsibility lies with IPCC Chairman Valentin Gorbunov. He must resign,” said party deputy chairman Nikolai Rybakov.

17:15, 10.09.2017

The Omsk Election Commission warned about the impending “mass stuffing of ballots”

The chairman of the city election commission, Ivan Khodokov, made an emergency statement. He was prompted to address the public by an anonymous telephone call, about which he also informed higher-level election commissions:

“We have now received an alarming call that a mass stuffing of ballots at polling stations is being prepared. We don't know how to react to this. Maybe this is a joke, maybe a prepared action, maybe a PR stunt to increase turnout in the elections. We informed the CEC that we had received such information. A letter is being prepared that will be sent to precinct election commissions asking them to be extremely careful. I would like to appeal to the observers and political parties be extremely careful. I would like to remind you that this is not only administrative, but also criminal liability. I will be very glad if this is someone's joke, it will not be confirmed. But we cannot help but respond to this information,” he said.

The head of the city election commission did not explain how an anonymous call can increase turnout at elections if, for example, one does not publicly respond to it: he initiated this “PR” (if it is PR) himself.

17:03, 10.09.2017

The candidate for municipal deputy who “bite” members of the PEC spoke about the conflict. He tried to prevent falsifications

Moscow. Vladimir Egorov, a registered candidate from Yabloko for the Council of Deputies of the Dorogomilovo municipal district, said that he tried to prevent election fraud and did not bite anyone.

According to him, individual PEC members wrote down the serial numbers of those who voted according to the list of voters on special sheets in order to control voting for the parties in power among public sector workers.

“When I started photographing the second sheet (with the list with the numbers of voters who voted - approx.), a member of the commission tried to snatch the sheet from me and tore it. I asked to call an operational investigation team to suppress falsifications. But another member of the commission tried to snatch the sheet with the list of voters from me, I grabbed her hand, and she complained that I allegedly bit her,” Egorov told RBC.

Earlier, the head of the Moscow Electoral Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, said that Yabloko bit and beat members of the PEC, for which he was removed from the polling station.

8.48% of Muscovites came to the elections in Moscow

Sevastopol. 100% of voters voted on ships of the Black Sea Fleet. This was announced by Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet Yuri Orekhovsky. We are talking about the frigate "Admiral Essen" and the hydrographic vessel "Equator", which are now in the distant waters of the Black Sea.

According to the Sevastopol City Electoral Commission, voting ballots on ships were prepared by members of election commissions working on them independently, according to layouts transmitted to the ships via technical communication channels.

A high turnout, 95%, was also noted at the Nakhimov School. Among the civilian population, turnout in Sevastopol is 25.3%.

16:33, 10.09.2017

The head of the Moscow Electoral Commission explained the failure of the information campaign for municipal elections

Moscow. The head of the Moscow Electoral Commission, Valentin Gorbunov, said that SMS notifications about the upcoming elections may not have arrived to Muscovites due to the fact that their phones may be registered to other people, for example, to children.

At the same time, according to him, in total more than 2.5 million SMS alerts were sent, although “there are more than 11 million Muscovites.”

“It’s hard for me to talk now. After the elections we will sort it out,” Gorbunov added.

Earlier, the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, announced the failure of the information campaign for municipal elections.

16:31, 10.09.2017

In Perm, for the sake of attendance, they give out movie tickets, conduct excursions and parent meetings

In Perm, some polling stations offer excursions to vote. At the bus stop public transport Not far from the Kamkabel enterprise there is a group of elderly people. When asked why they had gathered, they answered that they were about to go on an “Orthodoxy” tour of the churches of Perm. People are waiting for a special bus. According to them, four more such buses, for fifty people each, will pick up cable workers from other places.

“Well, like an excursion,” clarifies one participant. “First we’ll vote, and then we’ll have a tour.”

The organizer introduced herself as Galina Bobrova, an inspector for social work Perm enterprise "Kamkabel". According to her, such events take place every week. In her hands she has a pile of papers, on one of the sheets there is a column with school numbers. All these educational institutions have polling stations.

According to the Perm Observer group, Kamkabel today ordered 34 excursions from one of the local travel agencies. Additional buses and guides were sought from other companies.

Also in one Perm school, students junior classes In the morning, diagnostic testing was scheduled, which I had to come to with my parents. IN educational institution In the village of Ust-Kachka, Perm region, parent meetings were held in different classes. They invited us to them with entries in diaries, in which they told us to take our passports with us. As eyewitnesses say, after meetings, mothers and fathers were called to the ballot boxes.

In addition, at all Perm polling stations, those under 35 are given flyers that can be exchanged for movie tickets.

16:09, 10.09.2017

Candidates from United Russia are leading in Sevastopol

Sevastopol. The secretary of the city branch of United Russia, Boris Kolesnikov, during a speech at the media center “Election of the Governor of Sevastopol 2017” said that, according to his information, representatives of the ruling party are leading in the elections. “According to data from our observers, representatives of our party are confidently in the lead,” he said. How exactly United Russia observers learned about the leadership of their candidates, Kolesnikov did not specify.

United Russia nominated the current acting head of the city, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, as a candidate for the post of governor of Sevastopol. The head of the Sevastopol branch of Moscow State University, Ivan Kusov, is running for by-elections to the Legislative Assembly from United Russia.

15:54, 10.09.2017

Sverdlovsk region. In Pervouralsk, candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vokhmyakov accused his opponent from the “Patriots of Russia” of bribing voters and wrote a statement against him to the police. He claims his competitor was giving away local residents Nordic walking poles.

“They called me and said that Dmitry Andreevsky was giving away some prizes. I understand that this is being done as part of his project “Pervouralsk - City of Champions,” but a fact is a fact,” Vokhmyakov said.

Andreevsky himself told the local publication “Gorodskie Vesti” that he provides equipment for Nordic walking only for the duration of the training under the supervision of a trainer, and after its completion, voters return the poles.

15:32, 10.09.2017

A self-nominated deputy in Nizhny Tagil was attacked with a tire iron

Nizhny Tagil. Nizhny Tagil City Duma candidate Vyacheslav Goryachkin was attacked by a Gazelle driver who was illegally delivering campaign materials for his competitor, United Russia member Igor Temnov, on election day. Self-nominated candidate Goryachkin approached the bus and two Gazelles, trying to find out by what right they were engaged in illegal campaigning; the driver of one of the Gazelles took out the agreement concluded with Temnov “On the placement of propaganda materials.” But, frightened by the approaching police, the driver jumped into the car and drove away. Goryachkin rushed in pursuit. I caught up with him in the private sector of the city - then the driver came out with a tire iron and began throwing stones at Goryachkin’s car with varying degrees of success. The candidate for deputy filed a statement with the police, and the driver was detained.

Independent candidate Goryachkin, employee of the Nizhny Tagil Metal Structures Plant. Supported by United Russia, Temnov runs the Tagil Tram enterprise. At the moment, Temnov accused Goryachkin himself of illegal campaigning.

14:59, 10.09.2017

“They’ll come again, it’s not evening yet.” Vladimir Putin voted in municipal elections

Moscow. Russian President Vladimir Putin voted at polling station number 2151 in Moscow, which is located in the building of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Just the day before, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Putin had not yet made a decision whether he would go to the polls or not.

In this area, you can choose from one to three deputies from 18 candidates. In addition to three self-nominated candidates, the list of candidates includes representatives of United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Yabloko party, Rodina, A Just Russia and the Growth Party.

The president told reporters that he studied the biographies of the candidates before voting, but that he “didn’t really follow the course of the election campaign.”

“The choice was deliberate,” Putin said, but did not say for whom he cast his vote, noting that “this is secret information.”

Putin also drew attention to the fact that the turnout at the polling station was low, but there were a lot of media representatives, which “is also not bad, the interest of the press in municipal elections is also important,” and the residents “will come again, it’s not evening yet.”

15 thousand people voted early in the elections to the Omsk City Council. The KPFR is confident that this was done under duress

“In the elections to the Omsk City Council, the authorities relied on early voting,” State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Alexander Kravets said at a press conference the day before. According to the regional party committee, many doctors, teachers, government and municipal employees, firefighters and other public sector workers, such as archives, voted forcibly.

“We received messages every day,” regional committee secretary Andrei Alekhin told Novaya, “that state employees are forced to take photographs of ballots with a checkmark in the right place on their phones and then present them to their superiors.”

The Territorial Election Commission for the Soviet District, according to Alekhine, introduced a new interpretation of Article 17 of the Federal Law “On the Basic Guarantees of the Electoral Rights of Citizens” Russian Federation”, where we are talking about the procedure for holding elections in places of temporary residence. “Such places include prisons, hospitals, and the TEC equated CHPP - 3, CHPP - 4, TGK - 11, GC Titan (a group of companies producing synthetic rubber, phenol, engaged in biotechnology) to them. This means that either the workers of these enterprises will be brought by bus to polling stations, or members of election commissions will come there with ballot boxes.

In total, according to Andrei Alekhin, 15 thousand people voted early in Omsk. The city election commission reports that 2.5% of voters fulfilled their civic duty before Election Day.

14:33, 10.09.2017

Sverdlovsk region. The Center for Public Observation received a call from a polling station in the Vtorchermet district, on Fergana, 22, that they were allegedly distributing free pies on behalf of the gubernatorial candidate from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Alexei Parfenov. The visit of election commission specialists established that this candidate did not campaign for anyone with pies, and there was no illegal trade.

And another story with pies, but in Yaroslavl: Polling station buffets are seriously competing for the most delicious pies. The hashtag #buffetbattle has appeared online, using which users post photos of baked goods.

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Moscow. Dmitry Gudkov on his Facebook page

Kommersant analyzed how regional heads campaigned for certain candidates for the presidency of Russia.

According to the publication, since the 90s, governors, despite their party affiliation, have supported government candidates. This was the case even in 1996, when many regional heads were elected with the support of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Nevertheless, they were in no hurry to campaign for the leader of the Russian communists, Gennady Zyuganov; moreover, when they became heads of regions, they often criticized him.

To date, the situation and the balance of political forces have changed somewhat, but regional heads still give their preferences to government candidates. So, a few days ago, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin spoke in his blog about why he needs to go to the polls and why he supports Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate.

“Usually, over the years, a person in power becomes less and less susceptible to signals from the outside, the adequacy and severity of the reaction become dulled. I remember my former colleagues by the Federation Council, who led the regions for twenty years. A significant part of them became so bronzed that they could be on the pedestal tomorrow. With Putin it's the other way around. Amazingly, over the years he has become more natural, easier to communicate with. He never lost the desire to delve into problems personally.",” Sobyanin argued his position.

Sobyanin’s predecessor, Yuri Luzhkov, also supported the government candidate. In 1996, the Moscow mayoral elections coincided with the presidential elections, and then Luzhkov actively spoke out in support of Boris Yeltsin. On the eve of the vote, the entire capital was covered with billboards showing Yeltsin and Luzhkov shaking hands, the posters were accompanied by the inscription: "Muscovites have made their choice".

Governors have supported Vladimir Putin since his first presidential term. In particular, in 2000, the election bloc of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, “Transformation of the Urals” was specially renamed “Unity of the Urals”, since “Unity” was the name given to the pro-Kremlin bloc at the State Duma elections at that time.

The leaders of the federal subjects were also loyal to Vladimir Putin’s successor, Dmitry Medvedev. In 2007, Valentina Matvienko, who at that time held the post of governor of St. Petersburg, named him a candidate with social person. "As Deputy Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev oversaw social problems, and therefore knows people's lives well. The national projects that he also supervised greatly changed life in the country. He showed himself very successful person and coped with the tasks set by the president", she said.

An old-timer in the governor's corps - the head of the Belgorod region, Evgeny Savchenko (has ruled the region since 1990) - has always supported government candidates in presidential elections. He spoke out in support of Boris Yeltsin, and in support of Vladimir Putin, and in support of Dmitry Medvedev.

The situation during the 2018 elections was no exception. Immediately after Vladimir Putin announced his decision to run, many governors expressed their support for him. For example, the head of the Lipetsk region Oleg Korolev said that if Putin had made a different decision, then "We would all have to persuade and beg him to make this decision", because "he is the historical choice of Russia and the new world of which we are witnesses and participants".

Not all governors in this campaign directly mention the name of Vladimir Putin in their calls to come to the polls, but it is not difficult to guess it in their judgments.

“In the current foreign policy situation, with such unprecedented pressure on Russia, including even the sports industry, we need to show political maturity. We need to go to the polls and elect a president maximum number votes. We need to show that in these conditions we are not apolitical, to prove that our president, whom we will choose, has the support of the people, and it is useless to put pressure on the country and its leader, because he was elected by the maximum number of votes.", said the governor of the Ryazan region, Nikolai Lyubimov, in February.

Political consultant, political strategist, coordinator of the information and ideological direction of the Maksimov-Consulting agency Konstantin Baksheev shares his attitude towards the participation of regional heads in the election campaign: “Much depends on the popularity of the governor among the people. Those who are stronger are allowed to behave more actively, act more independently and creatively in the fight for turnout. In a presidential campaign, a top-rated governor is a VIP agitator. Meanings that are spoken from the mouth can also be conveyed through him a simple agitator looks ridiculous. An example of this is when, through Sobyanin, the election message is additionally recorded: “Putin has not become bronzed, he has remained himself, he is easy to communicate.”<...>
What is also traditionally observed in the federal campaign is the fear of regional authorities to share responsibility for the final result. Many governors try to act on the principle of “don’t interfere, he’ll kill you.” But in the end, arguments such as “we did everything that Moscow demanded, but it turned out badly” increasingly do not work and increasingly irritate Moscow itself.”

Political scientist Vyacheslav Belyakov (Vladivostok) notes that one of the incentives for governors to participate in campaigning is the chance to improve their positions: “It is important to understand that for any of the regional heads, such work is not a way to improve the results of the current president, but is a way to maintain his rating, since the rating of the president in any region of the Russian Federation is higher than the rating of any of the governors. In this regard, the speeches of the regional heads in support for the president will not actually bring bonuses to the leader of the state, since his rating is already high, but for the governors who supported him, this may be beneficial, because they declare their position to voters, increasing their trust rating and strengthening their apparatus positions.<...>
Whether people go to vote or not depends not only on the trust ratings of certain candidates, but also on the everyday things for which regional leaders are responsible.<...>In my opinion, whether roads in the regions are cleared or not can influence the results of turnout and elections almost more than all the previous work of candidates in one specific city or region."

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Full version of the material with detailed expert comments

According to the latest data from VTsIOM, Russian residents are ready to support candidates for governors and acting heads of regions.

Sociologists note that in eight constituent entities of the Russian Federation, where elections will be held on September 10, these candidates are supported by 54 to 82% of voters. To date, the highest ratings are for the acting head of Mordovia Vladimir Volkov (82.1%), the acting head of the Republic of Mari El Alexander Evstifeev (77.1%) and the acting governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov (76.7%).

According to experts, such results are primarily due to the support of the head of state. Conclusions were made based on the analysis of such indicators as public awareness, interest in elections, voting motives, indicators of declared voting for candidates and the degree of stability of electoral choice.

It is noted that if elections in Kirov region were held next Sunday, 49% of citizens would cast their votes for acting governor Igor Vasiliev (United Russia). And of those who plan to come to the polling station, 60% of respondents would support the candidate. The overall electoral indicator for Igor Vasilyev was 58.3%.

Indicators for the Kaliningrad region indicate that the leader in the region is the acting governor Anton Alikhanov (ER). 66% of respondents and 77% of those who intend to go to the polls are ready to vote for him. Anton Alikhanov's electoral indicator was 76.7%.

Residents of Mari El put in first place the acting head of the republic, Alexander Evstifeev (ER). 67% of respondents and 74% of those who go to vote will vote for him. The candidate's electoral indicator is 77.1%. Acting head of Mordovia Vladimir Volkov can also count on victory in the first round; he was supported by 58% of respondents and 67% of those ready to come to the polling stations. His electoral indicator is 82.1%.

Let us note that 53% of respondents and 61% of those who will vote would vote for the acting governor of Sevastopol Dmitry Ovsyannikov. Its electoral indicator was 69.5%. In the Tomsk region, the leader is Sergei Zhvachkin, the acting governor, with 44% of the vote and 55% of those who will come to the polls. This is the lowest figure among the eight acting heads of the constituent entities, however, according to the candidate’s electoral indicator (54.1%), he is in the lead with a noticeable gap from his competitors.

Acting head of Udmurtia Alexander Brechalov has good results - 57% and 72% of those who plan to take part in the elections. In the Yaroslavl region, 55% of respondents and 70% of respondents who will go to the polls are ready to support the acting governor Dmitry Mironov.

According to the head of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications, Dmitry Orlov, the positions of leaders are often due to the fact that they were supported by the president, which is a serious factor in electoral mobilization. The expert explained that all acting governors managed to create elite coalitions of varying degrees of strength around themselves. He also emphasized that in these regions there is no situation of polar choice, “when the acting governor would be opposed by a candidate with comparable electoral support. In addition, the not very favorable socio-economic situation in the regions has not led to any significant protests.”

“The business weekly “Profile” publishes a new study by the Center for the Development of Regional Policy, the second edition of the “Kremlin Rating of Russian Governors” in 2017.

In it, the heads of regions received ratings from “poor” to “excellent”; the compilers were based on the prospects for the further development of their careers. To date, none of the heads of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation receives the minimum rating of “one” (resignation is a foregone conclusion), since all planned personnel changes have been “suspended” for an indefinite period.

The Russian Presidential Administration has almost completed the formation of the gubernatorial team with which it is going to the 2018 elections. The regional elite of Russia now consists of completely different types of managers: “young technocrats”, proteges of large financial and industrial groups (FIGs), experienced politicians, party functionaries, including those from opposition parties, and random appointees. But the current structure is temporary. When President Vladimir Putin officially announces his intention to run for office new term, it will be possible to predict new wave rotations, most likely, after March 2018. Even those acting governors whose appointment occurred literally on the eve of the start of the presidential campaign can leave their posts. Many of them dream of returning to Moscow for federal positions immediately after the elections, showing good results and thereby earning a promotion, without direct work in the region. For those who show poor results, replacement decisions are unlikely to be made, but the further development of their career will be in question.

The main idea of ​​the new presidential term, the author of which can be considered the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, is to renew the governor’s corps by 70–80% by 2020. At the moment, this figure is at 30%, and in 2018 it may reach 40%. Replacing governors implies a reformatting of relationships with elites and even greater centralization of executive power at the local level, in essence, de-federalization, even greater cementation of the “vertical of power” based on the principle of corporate governance. In the conditions of a new mobilization economy, which Russia can achieve as a result of lower prices for hydrocarbon raw materials, increased sanctions pressure and a number of other political and economic factors, there is no longer any room for independent heavyweight governors.

Regional Putin Team

In what configuration is the regional “presidential team” with which Vladimir Putin can go to the elections? Among the new appointees of acting governors, the percentage of the so-called. “young technocrats” remains high. This concept unites people aged 30–50 years who came to the position of governor from administrative positions and have nothing to do with politics. In addition, among the new acting regional leaders there were people over 60 years of age, as well as candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia. The gubernatorial corps is formed mainly using a certain methodology - the selection of the majority of candidates for the personnel reserve of the presidential administration. But there are exceptions in the form of “direct” appointees. In 2018–2019 their number may increase, since we will be talking about the most resource-rich, financially intensive subjects of the Federation (for example, Moscow, Moscow region, St. Petersburg, etc.). Since the struggle for them at the top of the government is especially stubborn, the most compromise candidates will have a chance of passing.

In 2017, direct elections were held in 16 regions of Russia. In 2018, the number remains approximately the same - 16 subjects will elect heads by direct voting and three more by voting in parliament. The number of regions where elections will be held could increase if resignations continue.

As part of the financial industrial group

The growing influence of federal groups on regional politics is one of the main trends of the season. Among the most strengthened financial industrial groups we can note the state corporations Rostec, Rosneft and Rosatom, as well as private business represented by the “group of Rotenberg brothers” and the “group of Kovalchuk brothers”. It is with them that political groups formed around such influential federal officials as Dmitry Medvedev, Anton Vaino, Sergei Kiriyenko, Sergei Shoigu, Sergei Sobyanin, Vyacheslav Volodin and others prefer to enter into apparatus alliances. Separately, it is worth noting a new political force - a group of “Novoozernye”, people from security forces(FSO and FSB), considered personal presidential appointees.

Another innovation is that most governors undergo special training under the “personnel reserve” program, the author of which is the first deputy head of the Administration of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kiriyenko. The final decision on which region to assign a reservist to is made without the consent of the candidate himself. Moreover, in a number of cases this decision may change at the very last moment by decision “from above”. Thus, Stanislav Voskresensky, who was responsible for the Asia-Pacific region at the Ministry of Economic Development, was assigned to the Ivanovo region, although he dreamed of Primorye, the popular Yekaterinburg politician Alexander Burkov got Omsk, and the mayor of Vologda Andrei Travnikov left for Novosibirsk, which was unfamiliar to him. There were also exceptions to the rules, for example, the former mayor of Samara Dmitry Azarov became the acting head of the Samara region, and the veteran of local politics Alexander Uss headed the Krasnoyarsk region.

For all governors, the main task of the new political season will be elections, first of the Russian president, and then of their own. In addition, elections will be held in 16 regions legislative assemblies, which may become a difficult test for the heads of these subjects of the Federation (for example, Yakutia, Buryatia). Therefore, those at risk are those leaders who are unable to fulfill their electoral tasks: holding presidential elections with a high turnout and with a high result for the main candidate, and then working well in regional campaigns. There may be several reasons: low electoral ratings, conflicts with local elites, growing protest sentiments, low socio-economic indicators.

Reservists, go to battle

In 2018, elections will be held for 16 governors, 9 of them are acting temporarily due to the early termination of powers of their predecessors.

47-year-old Dmitry Azarov became the acting governor of the Samara region. The former head of the city of Samara receives an “excellent” rating. He is part of the local influential financial and industrial group Volgopromgaz, which also cooperates with the Rostec group. Azarov’s main mission is to pacify and consolidate the local elites, since he is a compromise figure between the owner of Volgopromgaz Vladimir Avetsyan, the head of Rostec Sergei Chemezov and the Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, whom the Samara elites previously oriented towards. In addition, Azarov has a high electoral rating.

Acting Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin receives an “excellent” rating with a minus. Nikitin, who comes from the team of Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov, is part of the Rostec group. He began work with large-scale personnel changes and the fight against the team of ex-governor Valery Shantsev. There are a number of problems with local self-government (LSG), but a project for a new city administration has already been formed. Like many “technocrats,” Nikitin does not have his own team; he has to rely on local forces. He has ambitious plans to reformat regional policy, but few tools for their implementation, which is a significant disadvantage.

Acting Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 63-year-old Alexander Uss, is the exception that proves the rule: there is a serious struggle at the top for rich regions like the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Uss became a compromise candidate, supported by Oleg Deripaska and Sergei Shoigu. He “pushed” the most likely contender - the head of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FANO) Mikhail Kotyukov, a native of Krasnoyarsk, who, before moving to work in federal departments, served as Minister of Finance and Deputy Chairman of the regional government. Uss began with a tough personnel purge, appointing a new head of the city of Krasnoyarsk and continuing to build a new “vertical of power” in the region.

The acting governor of the Primorsky Territory is Andrei Tarasenko, he is 54 years old, and he is one of the few so-called. personal presidential appointees. Previously he headed Rosmorport and was considered a person close to Timchenko’s group. Leads a balanced policy, found mutual language with the elites of the region, appointing... O. the mayor of Vladivostok, the former “Socialist Revolutionary” Konstantin Mezhonov, as his deputy and proposing Alexei Litvinov, a nominee of the team of ex-governor Sergei Darkin (2001–2012), for the post of mayor. Tarasenko’s main task, according to experts, is special control over the president’s instructions, in particular, the decision environmental problems region.

Acting Governor of the Oryol Region Andrei Klychkov, who is only 38 years old, headed the region under the so-called. “communist quota”, since the former governor was elected from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The region is in difficult financial condition, since 70% of budget debts are loans from commercial banks. So far, Klychkov cannot find contact with the regional elites, who are already criticizing him for the lack of strategy and command. Klychkov’s rival in the elections could be regional council deputy Vitaly Rybakov, a self-nominated candidate with a high rating. Klychkov’s advantage should be his youth and desire to demonstrate himself as a professional manager, and not as a person building a business structure in the region. After the departure of the former governor Vadim Potomsky, Klychkov receives credit from the population, since people pin hopes on the new leader for an improvement in the socio-economic situation.

46-year-old Andrei Travnikov became the acting head of the Novosibirsk region; before his appointment, he was the mayor of Vologda, and before that he worked as deputy plenipotentiary representative in the Northwestern Federal District, Vladimir Bulavin. Part of the Severstal group of oligarch Alexei Mordashov. It will not be easy for Travnikov to win the gubernatorial elections, since his electoral position is quite weak, and there are many serious opposition rivals in the region, for example, the head of the city of Novosibirsk, Anatoly Lokot, elected from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and with a high rating.

Acting head of the Omsk region Alexander Burkov is 50 years old, and has recently been supported by the group of State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. Burkov, one of the leaders of the A Just Russia party, will apparently run for the same party, which could weaken his electoral position, since SR's rating in Omsk fluctuates at 5%. In addition, elections for the head of the city of Omsk will soon take place, which will be the first serious test for Burkov. He inherited a difficult legacy: large-scale projects for which there are no funds, a conflict between the authorities and the so-called. “old directorate” (aged regional elite from the military-industrial complex), conflicts with local self-government.

Acting head of the Ivanovo region Stanislav Voskresensky, 41 years old, has a good starting position - a rating of hope and trust from the population. The hardware is tied to First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. He worked at the Ministry of Economic Development, where he oversaw areas related to the Asia-Pacific region, and wanted to head an area close to this part of the world. But by coincidence, he was sent to the Ivanovo region.

The acting head of the Pskov region was 42-year-old Mikhail Vedernikov, who replaced ex-governor Andrei Turchak, who left for the Federation Council. Turchak is expected to head the General Council of United Russia. Vedernikov, rather, he can be attributed to Anton Vaino’s influence group. Previously, Vedernikov worked in the embassies of the Northwestern Federal District and the North Caucasus Federal District. He inherited an extremely difficult region with a budget, 75% of which came from loans from commercial banks.

New shift

16 governors were directly elected this year. They all score high up front because they each have at least a year to demonstrate their effectiveness, and voters pin their hopes on improving life in the region.

The head of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov, who received 81% of the votes with a turnout of almost 40%, receives a “good” with a minus sign, since his conflict with the plenipotentiary representative in the Northwestern Federal District Nikolai Tsukanov continues to grow. The governor has turned the regional media against himself due to a number of media scandals, including a rude response to a journalist during a press conference, information about the possible acquisition of an expensive apartment at budget expense, pressure through the security forces on opposition media, etc. Alikhanov is classified as one of those . n. “to the Rostec group”, in addition, he enjoys the patronage of the deputy director of the FSB, Evgeny Zinichev, who briefly headed the region before Alikhanov’s appointment.

The head of Karelia, Artur Parfenchikov, after the elections, in which he received 61.34% of the votes with an extremely low turnout of 29%, found himself in a difficult situation and receives a “good” rating with a minus. He is included in the group of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and if after the 2018 presidential elections he leaves the post of head of government, this could significantly weaken Parfenchikov’s position. In addition, it has already become known that Karelia will not receive money from the federal budget for the program for studying the Karelian language, which experts consider an image loss for the acting governor.

The head of Udmurtia, Alexander Brechalov, received a “good” with a minus after being elected with a result of 78% with a turnout of 34.54%. He headed a complex territory, and besides, his main task is to work with representatives of large defense industry complexes in the region, over which he has no influence. The appointment of Brechalov became a compromise between Vyacheslav Volodin and Sergei Kiriyenko, since the leadership of the political bloc of the Russian Federation Administration had changed several months before and a figure satisfactory to everyone was required for appointment to the position.

The head of the Yaroslavl region, Dmitry Mironov, receives a “good” rating after winning the elections with 79.32% of the votes with a turnout of almost 34%. However, inter-elite conflicts continue to grow in the region. The weak link of the governor's team remains the head of Yaroslavl, Vladimir Sleptsov (considered the creation of Igor Chaika, the son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation), whose work results are assessed extremely negatively. Mironov is part of the so-called group. “Novoozerny”, according to expert forecasts, after the presidential elections may be considered for the post of head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, since he has relevant work experience (previously he headed the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs).

The head of Sevastopol, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, after being elected in the elections with a result of 71% (with a turnout of 34.5%) receives a “good” rating. Ovsyannikov is a member of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak’s group, and his position could be seriously weakened if he leaves the government after the presidential elections. Ovsyannikov’s relations with the leadership of the Republic of Crimea remain tense; there are a number of conflicts within the city, in particular, with the command of the Black Sea Fleet (the city lays claim to the lands of the Ministry of Defense), and ex-mayor Alexei Chaly. One of the minuses is the delay in fulfilling the President’s instructions on the creation of specially protected natural areas.

The head of Mari El, Alexander Evstifeev, receives a “good”, as he won with 88% of the votes with a turnout of almost 44%. He is considered a person close to the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich, and he can also be attributed to the wider apparatus group of Sergei Kiriyenko. After the arrest of the extremely unpopular ex-governor Leonid Markelov from Evstifeev good credit trust from the population. However, the region has a difficult socio-economic situation; according to Maristat, unemployment remains high at 6.2%. The economic situation is complicated by Markelov’s “legacy” in the form of the region’s state debt (almost 14 billion rubles), of which 80% are loans from commercial banks. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has a strong position in the region; social tension may cause an increase in protest activity on the part of the Communists, which may lead to a drop in the leader’s rating.

Chapter Perm region Maxim Reshetnikov receives an “excellent” rating after being elected with a result of 82% with a turnout of 42%. He is part of Sergei Sobyanin’s group, and in many ways his future personnel prospects will depend on whether Sobyanin remains mayor of Moscow after his term expires in 2018. After his election, Reshetnikov began to establish relations with local elites; he managed to find a common language with people close to the two previous governors - Oleg Chirkunov and Viktor Basargin. From Basargin he got good socio-economic indicators, for example, the region’s public debt, according to the Perm Ministry of Finance, decreased by a record 40%, amounting to only 12 billion rubles. However, unemployment rates remain high - 6.5% (the highest in the Volga Federal District), which threatens to increase social tension.

The head of Buryatia, Alexey Tsydenov, gets an “excellent” with a minus - he won the elections with 87.4% of the votes with a turnout above 41%, thereby demonstrating one of the highest results in the country. Moreover, the elections took place in the absence of competition, since all significant players were not allowed to participate in the electoral process. Thus, even with a high result, Tsydenov was unable to gain authority among local elites, abandoning the competitive scenario in the elections. In 2018, elections to the People's Khural will be held, where his main opponents from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation will be able to take revenge. Elections are the main danger for Tsydenov’s rating, since the election campaigns of opposition candidates will be built on personal criticism of the authorities. Protest activity can be facilitated high level unemployment – ​​8%. On the plus side, Tsydenov received a budget with a low level of debt; in 2017 it decreased by almost 20%. This allows the head of Buryatia, if necessary, to seek additional support from the federal center.

The head of the Kirov region, Igor Vasiliev, after being elected with a result of 64% with a turnout of 30%, receives “excellent” and maintains high positions. Vasiliev is included in the so-called. the “Novoozerny” group and is considered one of the personal presidential appointees. He appointed a new city manager of the city, who must resolve the accumulated issues regarding housing and communal services. In recent months, information has appeared in the media about a possible merger of the Kirov region with the Republic of Udmurtia, which indicates Vasiliev’s possible personnel prospects as the head of a single region. Among the socio-economic problems are the high unemployment rate, 5.5%, according to Kirovstat, and the growth of the region’s public debt, which reduces the possibility of further borrowing funds. Since the communists are strong in the region, during the presidential campaign these problems may become the basis for criticism of the government and a decrease in its rating.

The head of the Novgorod region, Andrei Nikitin, won, gaining 67.99% with a turnout slightly above 28%, and receives an “excellent” rating with a minus. Nikitin can be considered one of the president’s personal nominees, since he previously headed the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, a project implemented by Vladimir Putin during his prime ministership. Among Nikitin’s patrons one can also name the head of Sberbank German Gref. The governor does not have his own team, and he has to rely on old personnel. Nikitin does not pay enough attention to relations with local elites, which in the future may lead to conflict situations.

The head of the Ryazan region Nikolai Lyubimov received 80% of the votes with a turnout of 36%. Lyubimov is associated with the group of the Head of the Department for domestic policy AP of the Russian Federation Andrei Yarin, who in 2004–2005 worked as chairman of the government of the Ryazan region, and in 2012–2016. - Deputy Presidential Envoy to the Central Federal District, who oversaw this region. In addition, Lyubimov was previously part of the team of Kaluga Governor Anatoly Artamonov and the head of the Tashir holding Samvel Karapetyan. Lyubimov is increasing his influence in the region - after the elections he removed the head of the city of Ryazan, who was part of the team of ex-governor Oleg Kovalev. In general, the region demonstrates stable socio-economic indicators.

Also, the governors of the Belgorod region Evgeny Savchenko, the Saratov region Valery Radaev, the Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvashev and the Tomsk region Sergey Zhvachkin were re-elected to new terms. It is worth noting that all of them have strengthened their positions, but the likelihood of their resignation in future political seasons remains. Including by age, for example, Evgeniy Savchenko is 67 years old, and Sergei Zhvachkin is 60 years old, so for them the current term is most likely the last. Savchenko is one of the heavyweight governors, but his level of federal support has fallen seriously. Zhvachkin is a member of Alexey Miller’s Gazprom group, but demonstrates a low level of electoral support (he won the elections with a result of 60% with a turnout of 25%), which calls into question successful implementation presidential campaign.

The situation is slightly different for Evgeniy Kuyvashev - 46 years old and Valery Radaev - 56 years old, who do not fall under the “age rotation”. Kuyvashev is part of Sobyanin’s group, who managed to get his protégé re-elected for a new term, despite the cold attitude towards him from the Kremlin. Kuyvashev removed the two main “drivers of the opposition” from the game - the “Socialist Revolutionary” Alexander Burkov, who later headed the Omsk region, and Vladimir Tungusov, who for many years was considered the “gray eminence” of Sverdlovsk politics, and now heads the governor’s administration and works in his team. The remaining strong regional politicians - the mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman and the mayor of Nizhny Tagil Sergei Nosov - have significantly reduced their activity. The latter, perhaps in connection with a hypothetical transition to a new job - he was considered a candidate for one of the regions (information appeared in the media about his possible appointment to the Kemerovo region). And Evgeny Roizman, according to talk in local political circles, may not go to the next election for the head of the city.

Valery Radaev is part of the “Vyacheslav Volodin group”. He received the opportunity to be re-elected for a new term as part of the agreements to assign the relevant territory to the “Volodin group”. One of the features of the socio-political situation associated with the region is the active activity on its territory of the Energy Union holding company of Arkady Evstafiev (Saratov Airlines, enterprises of the Agroros group with a corporate regional bank, OJSC PORT, etc. ). A number of his enterprises are in a state of constant struggle with supervisory authorities, as well as with the regional administration.

Opposition rules

An important niche in the structure regional authorities occupy the so-called opposition governors from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia. In essence, they fit into the same paradigm of “technocratic” management, but sometimes turn out to be even more effective than appointees from the reserve. Thus, the “excellent” rating is the governor of the Irkutsk region Sergei Levchenko, who over two years of work demonstrated high rates of economic growth: 5% growth in GRP, 7% industrial growth, 17% growth in investments, 30% growth in exports (according to Irkutskstat), up to 100% increase in execution indicators according to the May 2012 presidential decrees, reduction of the region's public debt by more than 27%. At the same time, Levchenko is one of the few who raises important political issues, for example, about the return of direct elections of the mayor.

The head of the Smolensk region, Vladimir Ostrovsky, a member of the LDPR, is seriously inferior to the communists in economic indicators, but is strengthening his position due to the fact that Vladimir Zhirinovsky will play an important role as a sparring partner of the main candidate in the presidential elections. In addition, the presence of opposition governors is an important decorative part of the existing political regional landscape, and this trend towards “depoliticization” of the executive branch is likely to continue.

Who's going out

Among those whose resignation may still take place before the presidential elections, experts name the following governors. Chapter Kemerovo region Aman Tuleyev. He is the oldest of the heads - 73 years old. The Kremlin would like to replace Tuleyev, but agreement on a successor is being delayed. The head of Kuzbass has built an authoritarian “vertical” that will reject any “Varangian”, so a compromise candidate is needed.

Chapters Altai Territory and the Altai Republic. Both governors are in the “age” group, and candidates to replace them have long been considered. The head of the Altai Republic, Alexander Berdnikov, is 64 years old and is not supported by any financial and industrial group. He has low electoral potential; a serious blow to Berdnikov’s image was dealt by a previously published audio recording in which he spoke insultingly about the Altai people.

The head of the Altai Territory, Alexander Karlin, is 66 years old, and he is also not supported by any financial and industrial group. The region has one of the lowest United Russia ratings in the country - at 35%. In 2018, the region remains among the highly subsidized ones; the amount of subsidies will increase by 4.5 billion, amounting to 27.1 billion rubles. This situation arose on the eve of the election of the head of the Republic of Khakassia. Governor Viktor Zimin's term of office expires next year; he is part of Sergei Shoigu's group. The region is in a pre-default state, but the federal center has agreed to allocate an additional 6–10 billion rubles to pay off budget debts.

Large castling is predicted in the Northwestern Federal District. The rotation could simultaneously affect the Murmansk region, the Komi Republic and St. Petersburg as part of the implementation of a major project to build the Northern Sea Route, for which two large financial industrial groups are fighting at once: the “Rotenberg group” and the “Kovalchuk group”. The struggle for the Murmansk region has been going on since the beginning of the year; the head of the region, Marina Kovtun, complained about the pressure from the security forces. However, due to the loss of Vladimir Potanin by Norilsk Nickel (a number of major projects were completed), whose group includes the governor, Kovtun’s position in this area has weakened. The head of Komi, Sergei Gaplikov, was considered one of the president’s personal nominees. But his position has seriously deteriorated due to a possible technical rapprochement with Viktor Vekselberg’s Renova group. It is believed that the former head of Komi, Vyacheslav Gaizer, belonged to the Renova group, so among the tasks of the new governor was the withdrawal of the structures of this group from the region, and not rapprochement with it. In addition, Komi also falls into the development area of ​​the Northern Sea Route (construction of the Belkomur railway line).

Even more a difficult situation– with the head of the city of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, who may go to work in federal structures. The city has a difficult electoral situation that needs to be corrected by presidential elections. Among possible successors Poltavchenko named the names of the head of Gazprom Alexey Miller, presidential plenipotentiary envoy in the Central Federal District Alexander Beglov, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, deputy presidential envoy in the Northwestern Federal District Lyubov Sovershaeva.

Technocrats needed

The head of Yakutia, Yegor Borisov, avoided possible resignation thanks to the protection of the group of the former head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov and the plenipotentiary representative in the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev. Meanwhile, the opposition accuses Borisov of large-scale thefts and writes statements to the Russian Investigative Committee. But perhaps the main reason for the fight with Borisov is that he still refuses to privatize the “ulus” (owned by district administrations) shares of ALROSA.

The head of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, is part of Sergei Shoigu’s group. His term of office expires in 2018; according to numerous rumors, he will not be re-elected for another term, so a “review of applicants” is already underway to replace him. Among them are the head of the Ministry of Construction of Russia Mikhail Men (supported by Dmitry Medvedev and Sergei Shoigu as a compromise candidate), the head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov (supported by Rostec and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin), plenipotentiary representative in the Central Federal District Alexander Beglov, Deputy Mayor of Moscow Anastasia Rakova.

The term of office of the head of the Vladimir region, Svetlana Orlova, ends in 2018. Her conflict with local elites escalated, as a result of which they tried to initiate a criminal case against Orlova’s son. Two officials from Orlova’s entourage were arrested - Vice-Governor Elena Mazanko and former Vice-Governor Dmitry Khvostov.

The head of the Magadan region, Vladimir Pecheny, also expires in 2018. He is already 68 years old, so his “successor” will most likely run for election. It is likely that the Rosneft company, for which Magadan has already become the main coastal base for developing the shelf of the northern part of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, will try to appoint an acting one. This means the development of port infrastructure.

Another “age” politician is the governor Khabarovsk Territory Vyacheslav Shport, 63 years old, his term of office expires in 2018, is part of Yuri Trutnev’s influence group. The region has a low level of electoral support for the authorities; in the State Duma elections in 2016, United Russia received about 37% of the votes. Eat serious conflict elites, especially with financial group ex-governor Viktor Ishaev.

To summarize, we can draw the following conclusion. During his new presidential term, Vladimir Putin is going to work with the governor’s corps, which, through the efforts of Sergei Kiriyenko’s political team, will be transformed into a fundamentally new structure - a team of regional managers selected by the Kremlin. This approach allows you to solve specific problems by planning work with projects and assessing the effectiveness of their implementation. Governors cease to be regional elites and resource centers, but, on the contrary, act as organizers of local elites. The constant rotation of the gubernatorial corps is another mechanism of control and motivation, and the source for shuffling should be the personnel reserve. Extraterritoriality and lack of connection with the region is another innovation for heads working on technocratic principles. At the same time, responsibility for personnel lies with those financial and industrial groups that managed to lobby for the appointment of their candidate. But so far this system is being tested and is already causing noticeable disruptions in its work - difficulties in forming a team, passivity in management, lack of understanding of the local agenda, political work, etc. Therefore, today the staffing of the governor’s corps is carried out according to a mixed scheme: through the personnel reserve ,Direct Assignments and Hardware Tradeoffs.