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| 27 марта, 2014

The Foundation for Civil Society Development (FCSD) is opening regional branches from Vladivostok to Crimea.

Konstantin Kostin, head of the FCSD, has announced that the Foundation is opening branches in six regions of Russia: Novosibirsk, Kaliningrad, Stavropol, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg and Saint Petersburg. Kostin added that on the 2nd April he will be holding meetings with new branch managers. He also said that the Foundation is considering opening a further branch of the Foundation in the Crimea.

Following the integral rating by the FCSD of regional governors, experts have noted that those governors, who came last in five out of ten on the ratings list, have now been fired by President Putin.

Konstantin Kostin also explained the reason for opening regional branches. He said that they will give the Foundation a far greater ‘involvement in the regional agenda’ and the ability to ‘tap in on regional experts and examine the regional elites.’ The above cities were selected because, says Kostin, ‘they were already involved in the FCSD programme.

In Saint Petersburg the head of the new branch department will be Stanislav Yeremeev - Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences in Saint Petersburg State University. In Stavropol it will be Gennady Kosov from the Russian Association of Political Sciences. Moreover, the media has pointed out, that three heads of local branches ‘all have experience working in their regions; In Yekaterinburg for example, the political scientist Anatoly Gagarin used to work in the Russian Administration. In the Kaliningrad branch it will be Yelena Volova, the former Deputy Chairman of the regional Administration and the Vladivostok Department is headed up by Alexander Schemelev, the former Deputy Governor of Domestic Policy.

Konstantin Kostin told the press: ‘The heads of our departments were selected on the basis of their professional qualifications and are working on the drafting of the second rating of the efficacy of governors. The first rating was published in January and five out of the ten governors who showed the worst rating have already been fired.’