Tag: gubernatorial elections

Putin Faces New Kind of Parade of Sovereignties in Degraded Russian Regions

May 31, 2015
Analysis
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, May 27 – Russian governors, “even the most loyal” to the Kremlin, as a result of the intensification of the economic crisis, find themselves between a rock and a hard place and are beginning to complain about Moscow’s failure to articulate an anti-crisis strategy which takes the interests of their regions into account, according […]

Ending Gubernatorial Elections Seen Weakening Ethnic Autonomies In Remaining ‘Matryoshka’ Districts

November 20, 2014
Window on Eurasia

Staunton, November 20 – Legislators in the two autonomous districts in Tyumen region and the one in Arkhangelsk region, the three remaining “matryoshka” federal subjects, this week simultaneously asked for the elimination of direct elections of their governors in favor of one in which the local legislators themselves would make the decision. Moscow officials say […]