When, during a session of the Legislative Assembly of the Altai Territory, deputies asked questions about the sharp increase in prices for military special-purpose goods, the official Snesar replied that these problems did not concern the regional government. And when asked about helping mobilized fellow countrymen, the same Snesar said that “The Altai Territory cannot interfere in the affairs of the Ministry of Defense.” After local media disseminated this position of a representative of the executive branch, a natural wave of indignation arose in the region.
This official was inherited by the current head of the region, Tomenko, from the former governor, Alexander Karlin, about whom a bad memory remains in the region: the retiree’s team illegally privatized the region’s economy, so the new technocrat leader Tomenko and his specialists had to root out “gray schemes” for a long time and destroy the offshore nooks of Altailes “, which was accompanied by the initiation of criminal cases. However, part of the region’s economy is still controlled by the “Carlinians”, who do not give up the dream of revenge.
The “crown” of the governor of the Altai Territory is already being taken on by the deputy chairman of the regional government, Vitaly Snesar, who today heads the apparatus, is responsible for personnel selection, mobilization, and openly crushes the heads of municipalities. The point is that by the upcoming gubernatorial elections next year, all the main managerial and financial potential of the region will be in his hands.
Under Tomenko, the economic indicators of the region began to improve, the region began to live according to the rules and laws, but such successes do not at all please the team of ex-governor Karlin. The “Carlinians” associate the return of their power in the region and the promotion of their protégé to first place not with the growth that has begun, but with the decline and scandals in the region. It seems that high-ranking official Snesar is working more and more actively towards this plan of theirs, who no longer hesitates to try to drive a wedge between the population and the executive branch, provoking discontent among citizens with his inflammatory statements in the Legislative Assembly.
It is obvious that the regional front aims to use the SVO and the associated restructuring of the economy along mobilization lines in its own opportunistic interests, which are increasingly becoming politically colored. In the Altai region this color becomes especially poisonous.
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