Title: THE FEDERAL DISTRICTS
1THE FEDERAL DISTRICTS
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3Federal District Composition District Capital Population
Central Republics -0 Regions -17 Other -1 Moscow 25,5
Northwest Republics - 2 Regions - 8 Other - 2 St.Petersburg 9,8
Southern Republics - 8 Regions 5 Rostov-on-Don 14,4
Volga Republics - 6 Regions 8 Nizhniy Novgorod 21,1
Ural Republics - 0 Regions - 2 Other 2 Ekaterinburg 8,7
Siberian Republics -4 Regions -8 Other -4 Novosibirsk 13,4
Far East Republics 1 Regions - 6 Other - 3 Khabarovsk 5,0
4FEDERAL DISTRICT PRESEDENTIAL REPRESENTATIVE PREVIOUS POSITION MILITARY RANK
Central POLTAVCHENKO Georgy Presidential representative in Leningrad region (Federal Tax Service, St.Petersburg Chief) General
Northwest CHERKESOV Viktor Federal Security Service, 1st Deputy Director Lt.General
Southern KAZANTSEV Viktor North Caucasus Military District, Commander General
Volga KIRIENKO Sergey Prime-Minister, April-August 1998 None
Ural LATYSHEV Petr Ministry of Interior, Deputy Minister Col.General
Siberian DRACHEVSKY Leonid Minister of CIS Affairs, Career Diplomat None
Far East PULIKOVSKY Konstantin Deputy Commander, Chechen War Lt.General
5The expectation was that the federal districts
would become power links in a vertical chain of
command, super-regions that would restore Kremlin
control over the multitude of independent
governors.
- In reality their task was
- to prevent the break-up of the Russian
Federation, to control the governors and
presidents who were openly flouting the legal
authority of Moscow - to be the eyes and ears of the president in the
regions.
6The main political instruments were
- insistence on rewriting regional laws to conform
to federal law. This has proceeded fairly
smoothly although it is an open question
whether implementation of the new laws will
differ from past practices. - supervision of anti-corruption campaigns,
unleashing the procuracy on criminal actions by
government officials. - monitoring of elections, and using elections to
try to remove objectionable governors - monitoring the mass media, trying to create media
outlets favorable to Moscow, and creating new
media outlets to promote regional identity and
cooperation between the federal districts
components - supervision of security institutions, including
stopping efforts by regional leaders to create
their own security networks.
7- Every Presidents representative has developed
new functions which were not necessarily part of
President Putins original plan.
8NEW PRESEDENTIAL REPRESENTATIVES
- Northwest
- CHERKESOV Viktor - MATVEENKO Valentina (Vice
Prime Minister) -KLEBANOV Igor (Vice Prime
Minister) - Southern
- KAZANTSEV Viktor YAKOVLEV Vladimir (Vice
Prime Minister) KOZACK Dmitry (Presidents
Administration, First Deputy Head -
- Volga
- KIRIENKO Sergey - KONOVALOV Alexander
(Bashkortastan Prosecutor) - Siberian
- DRACHEVSKY Leonid KVASHNIN Anatoly (Chief
Of General Staff) -
Far East - PULIKOVSKY Konstantin ISHAKOV Kamil
(Kazan Mayor) -
9Northwest Federal District
10Northwest Federal District
- GENERAL INFORMATION
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- Total area 1 687 000 square kilometers (9.8 of
all Russian territory) - Population 14.4 million (9.9 of all Russian
population) - Central city St. Petersburg
- The district enjoys a lucrative geopolitical
situation it borders Finland, Norway, Poland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, and has
outlets to Baltic, White, Barents, and Kara Seas.
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- The district has a rich natural resource
potential 16 and 20 of Russias explored oil
and gas reserves, respectively 50 of European
Russia forests, and Europes largest coal
reserves (214 billion ton). -
11Leading Industries
- In 2004, industrial growth in Northwest Russia
was 113 percent of the 2003 level, driven mainly
by business expansion in St. Petersburg, and
Arkhangelsk and Kaliningrad Oblasts. - The most developed industries of the Northwest
Federal District are - Metallurgy (Leningrad Oblast and Vologda)
- Chemical and petrochemical (Leningrad Oblast,
Murmansk and Novgorod) - Logging, wood processing, pulp and paper
(Leningrad Oblast, the Komi and Karelia
Republics, Pskov and Novgorod) - Machine-tool building (St.Petersburg, Leningrad
Oblast and Novgorod) - Food processing (St.Petersburg, Leningrad Oblast,
Novgorod and Pskov) - Non-ferrous metallurgy (Murmansk and the Komi
Republic)
12Major Development Challenges
- Low development of human resources
- - Demographic implosion (mortality rates exceed
birth rates by a factor of 2 the average life
interval is 59 years for men and 72 years for
women from 1991, population numbers contracted
by 912 000) - - Low income levels (average monthly wages are
equivalent to 135-140 average pensions and
subsidies are below the actual minimum living
costs) - - High crime rates
- Inefficient structure of economy (a high
proportion of raw-material and low-technology
industries low innovation levels) - Significant gaps between regions development
levels centralized management of regions
financial resources by the federal budget - Development challenges in the Russian exclave
Kaliningrad Oblast - Lack of an overall federal development strategy
inconsistent regional policies of the federal
government