RUSSIA - Putin's Regional Representatives.In curbing the powers of the Federation's 89 governors, soon after he was elected in May 2000 (see OMT (Object Modeling Technique) An object-oriented analysis and design method developed by James Rumbaugh. See Rational Rose. OMT - Object Modelling Technique ), President Putin redivided Russia into seven super-districts and named a presidential representative for each one of them. Each representative was to oversee the various autonomous regions within his super-district. Lt. Gen. Viktor Cherkesov Viktor Vasilyevich Cherkesov (Russian: Виктор Васильевич Черкесов, b. , a veteran of KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. who had been deputy director of FSB (FrontSide Bus) See system bus. FSB - front side bus (domestic successor to KGB), was made representative for the northern district with its capital being St. Petersburg. Cherkesov, close to the president and known in Soviet years for mercilessly pursuing dissidents, oversees the work of St. Petersburg's elected mayor, Vladimir Yakovlev who is a Putin opponent (see Downtream Trends). For the Moscow district and related areas, Putin named his friend and former deputy mayor of St. Petersburg Georgi Poltavchenko. Earlier he was the director of the tax police in the city and was chosen to oversee Moscow because of his loyalty to Putin. Now he is overseeing the work of Moscow's elected mayor Luzhkov (see his profile in DT). For the southern district, headquartered in Rostov-on-Don, Putin appointed Gen. Viktor Kazantsev Viktor Kazantsev was an envoy of the Russian president to the Southern Federal District from 2000 to 2004. He performed primary negotiations between the Russian government and the Chechen opposition. , formerly commander of the Caucasus Military District and a leading general of the Chechen war. For the Urals, headquartered in Yekaterinburg, Putin got another military man, Col. Gen. Pyotr Latyshev, a former deputy interior minister. Earlier he had been assigned to St. Petersburg. For the far east, based in Khabarovsk, Putin named Lt. Gen. Konstantin Pulikovsky, who had earlier been a presendential envoy in the region. The general was a leader of Russian forces during the first Chechen war The First Chechen War (Russian: первая чеченская война when the rebel guerrillas captured Grosny. For the Trans-Volga district, with headquarters in Nizhny, Putin appointed former prime minister Seigei Kiriyenko, who earlier was a banker from Nizhny-Novgorod (see his profile in Vol. 51, No. 9). For Siberia Putin chose Leonid Drachevsky. A onetime athlete and diplomat, he became minister for the CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S in the summer of 1999. |
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