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2004–05 Russian Gubernatorial Elections
Gubernatorial elections in 2004 and 2005 were held in 25 federal subjects of Russia. In several regions these elections were moved from end of 2004 to March 14 to combine with the 2004 Russian presidential election. On 12 December 2004, at the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin, gubernatorial elections were abolished throughout the country. These were the last gubernatorial elections in Russia until September 2012. Race summary Bryansk Oblast Governor of Bryansk Oblast Yury Lodkin was going on his third term in 2004 (fourth if 1993–96 tenure as Head of Administration counted), but was removed from registration "for abuse of office". The application to the regional court was submitted by the candidate from the People's Party of the Russian Federation, People's Party Alexander Zhdanov. Lodkin, considered one of the favorites of the campaign, linked his removing from ballot with his Communist Party membership. He accused the United Russia party of “unwillingness ...
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List Of Current Heads Of Federal Subjects Of Russia
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole". Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help ...
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Nikolay Kiselyov (politician)
Nikolay Ivanovich Kiselyov () is a Russian politician who was the governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast from 2004 to 2008. He was born in Severodvinsk Severodvinsk (; ) is a city in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, located in the delta of the Northern Dvina, west of Arkhangelsk, the administrative center of the oblast. As of the 2021 Census, the population was 157,213. Due to the p ... in 1950. In 1974 he graduated from a technical institute at Sevmash with an electrical engineer qualification. He worked in Severodvinsk at the Northern Production Association "Arktika", at the "Polyarnaya Zvezda" plant. Kiselyov is married and has two daughters. In 2004 Kiselyov won the gubernatorial election in Arkhangelsk Oblast. Director of Arkhangelsk dairy factory, he was seemed as a dark horse candidate. Kiselyov's campaign was funded by various industrial enterprises and entities hostile to governor Yefremov ( Lukoil, Solombala and Arkhangelsk Paper Mills etc.) He gained 45% of t ...
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Chita Oblast
Chita Oblast ( rus, Чити́нская о́бласть, r=Čitínskaja óblastj, p=tɕɪˈtʲinskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in southeast Siberia, Russia. Its administrative center was the city of Chita. It had extensive international borders with China (998 km) and Mongolia (868 km) and internal borders with Irkutsk and Amur Oblasts, as well as with the republics of Buryatia and Yakutia. Its area was . Population: The oblast was established on September 26, 1937. On March 1, 2008, Chita Oblast merged with Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug to form Zabaykalsky Krai. The territory that made up the former Chita Oblast was first explored by Cossacks led by Pyotr Beketov in 1653. People began to move into and develop the area in order to strengthen Russia's border with China and Mongolia, extract mineral resources, and build the Trans-Siberian Railway. In 1920, Chita became the capital of the Far East Republic, which merged ...
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Igor Morozov (politician)
Igor Nikolayevich Morozov (; born December 10, 1956) is a Russian politician. He is a member of the Federation Council of the Ryazan Oblast since 2012 (from executive branch until 2017, and then from legislative branch, passing his former seat to ex-governor Oleg Kovalyov). Morozov was candidate for governor of Ryazan Oblast (in the elections in 2004 and in 2012). Expert in the field of international economic relations, the author of several scientific papers. He was once a special operative for the KGB, and completed at least one assignment to the Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan in 1982. He speaks English, German and Persian languages. Sanctions He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It ...
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Rodina (political Party)
The All-Russian Political Party "Rodina" is a nationalist political party in Russia. It is a coalition of thirty nationalist groups that was established by Dmitry Rogozin,Bryant, Jordan"Rodina" School of Russian and Asian Studies. Sergey Glazyev, Sergey Baburin, Viktor Gerashchenko, Georgy Shpak, Valentin Varennikov and others in August 2003. The party's ideology combines "patriotism, nationalism, and a greater role for the government in the economy", and is described as pro-Kremlin. Its headquarters is located in Moscow. In the 2003 legislative elections, Rodina won 9.02% of the vote and ended up with 37 of the 450 seats in the State Duma. In the 2016 elections, it won 1.51% of the vote and ended up with one seat. In the 2021 elections, it won 0.80% of the vote and ended up with one seat. The party supports President Vladimir Putin. Party name The term ''rodina'' (Russian: родина) means "motherland". It is one of three words in the Russian language that expre ...
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Georgy Shpak
Georgy Ivanovich Shpak (; born 8 September 1943) is a retired Russian Airborne Forces colonel general. He finished his military career as the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces from 1996 to 2003, and afterwards he was the governor of Ryazan Oblast, Russia from 2004 to 2008. Biography Early life Born September 8, 1943, in Osipovichi, Mogilev region USSR to Ivan Antonovich, who worked the railroad during his lifetime, and Anna Akimovna, who worked as an accountant. He enrolled and graduated from the Minsk Railway School majoring in locomotive engineering, locksmithing and as an electrician for locomotives. Military career Shpak served as a soldier for six months in the 137th Guards Airborne Regiment in Ryazan, then entered the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School, Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School, from which he graduated with honors in 1966 and was appointed commander of the cadet platoon. In 1970 he became a company commander of cadets at the school, and i ...
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