The Kremlin versus the outpost
SAVE for the coal-mining province of Kemerovo in Siberia, which has been slow drafting its election law, all Russia's 89 regions and republics have local leaders chosen by direct election. Not all have chosen happily: a petition to recall Vladimir Yakovlev, the ineffectual governor of St Petersburg, attracted some 250,000 signatures last month. But probably no region has chosen as badly as Primorsky Krai (“Maritime Territory”), on Russia's Pacific Coast.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “The Kremlin versus the outpost”
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