Putin’s Governors Come from Narrow Range of Institutions, ‘Club of the Regions’ Says

Paul Goble

            Staunton, Nov. 6 – Much attention has been paid to the governors’ school the Kremlin has set up as a source of these cadres that more than half of the governors now in place are its graduates (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2022/05/putins-governors-school-playing.html  and windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2024/02/more-than-half-of-heads-of-russian.html).

            Now, analysts at the Club of the Regions have done a deeper dive and considered what were the last positions of the heads of federal subjects had before Putin named them as governors. The Club’s analysts found that these officials came from a remarkably small range of institutions (club-rf.ru/theme/616):

·       Five came from each of the two houses of the Federal Assembly, the Council of the Federation and the State Duma.

·       Four came from the Presidential Administrtion.

·       Three came from the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service.

·       And two came from each of the following structures: the Political Representation of the North-West Federal District, the ministry for economic development, the ministry for industry and trade, and the All-Russian Peoples Front.