The crisis began to affect the strength of the position of the governor – RBC

The crisis began to affect the strength of the position of the governor – RBC

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a speech before the governors, heads of legislative assemblies and the mayors of the capitals of the Federation at the annual seminar for regional leaders. Archival photo

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close to the Kremlin Civil Society Development Foundation on Tuesday will present this year’s first performance rating of governors. Unlike the previous releases in the new list visible movement occurred. In many ways they assess the impact of the financial and economic policy in the region during the crisis, and corruption problems and criticism of public organizations, lists the head of FoRGO Konstantin Kostin.

In the black

For the first time rank the leader has changed – now recognized as the most effective Kaluga Region Governor Anatoly Artamonov. Who led all the previous lists FoRGO Head Yamal -Nenetskogo Autonomous Okrug Dmitry Kobylkin down one line down. “This is due, inter alia, with the investigation of the ONF, during which it was found that the leadership of the region too often take advantage of VIP-charters. In this case, the press office of the governor could not give a clear explanation of the situation “, – stated in a memorandum to the rating.

Most of all added the governor of Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko – it has moved 11 lines up from the previous rating, taking 24- th place. By the end of 2014 the region has considerably strengthened its economic position, becoming a donor region and one of the few actors who are not threatened budget sequestration, explained in the ranking.

added and Kaliningrad Governor Nikolai Cukanov . Last year he was in the lowest, so-called “group of death” – on 79- th place. Now Cukanov was able to “more flexibility” to respond to the problems of the region, according to the explanatory note. As a result, he was able to climb a few places up and found himself in a group of “average.” Until recently it seemed that the days of Tsukanova at the head of the region considered, but now he was able to get approval of the Kremlin to take part in the elections this year, explains the source RBK close to the administration president. Officially it is not declared, but at the end of last year held a public meeting of Vladimir Putin with Tsukanov , which was announced in January that the fede ral and regional elites perceived as good for re-election.

In the red

Instead of Tsukanova in the latter group proved to be the governor of the Jewish Autonomous Region Alexander VINNIKOV . He moved up to eight positions down, once on 82- th place. The explanatory note weakening Vinnikov explains corruption scandal accused of taking bribes head of the Leninsky district region Sergey Lavruka problems in communication between the authorities and the public, as well as the high level of indebtedness of the regional budget.

The head of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (EAO) Alexander VINNIKOV

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Most likely, VINNIKOV will be the first head of the region, which in this he will resign, sources claimed earlier RBC, close to the presidential administration. Regional leaders of the “fourth group” is not just retired. In particular, among the weaker version of FoRGO was dismissed at the end of last summer, the governor of the Bryansk region Nikolai Deneen .

Among the heads of the regions where this year is also an election, three points dropped position of the Kemerovo governor Amana Tuleyev (previously 4-5 place). According to experts FoRGO , this was due to the rise in the region of uncertainty: no clear prospects of upstream and downstream enterprises in the economic crisis.

also significantly decreased the position of Krasnodar Governor Alexander Tkachev (his rating fell by nine points because of corruption scandals involving his deputies), the head of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Igor Kosheen (minus six seats) and the Governor of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak (minus six seats). The weakening of the latter in the explanatory memorandum explains the “immodest personal behavior” of officials of the Pskov administration.