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From: "James Beadle" <jamesdbeadle@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Dismissing old governors
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005

The press has been running pieces about Putin sacking the regional governor of Koryaksky for gross mismanagement.

The MT painted it as a fairly understandable application of his new powers. However, a Russian colleague pointed out to me that Putin's hugely controversial new powers permit him to fire those governors he appoints, but not those already on the job.

If this is true then regardless of the ousted governor's failings, it represents a huge authoritarian step towards dictatorial style control. Worse still, all this noise about Maskhadov is suppressing the issue.

Thoughts on this one please?