President of Karachay-Cherkessia approves of initiative of Chechen president

President of Karachay-Cherkessia, Boris Ebzeyev, approves of the initiative of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, who proposed that the heads of Russian federal subjects not be called ‘presidents’, RIA Novosti reports.

Kadyrov sent an official letter to the parliament requesting the name of his status be changed, because there can be only one president in a single state.

Ebzeyev recalled that, in 1993, they were insisting at the constitutional council to have a federative but single state. A single state has one president.

There are 21 republics out of 83 constituent subjects in Russia. Besides Chechnya, such republics as Buryatia, Bashkiria, Mari-El, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia, the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Adygeya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia and North Ossetia-Alania have their own presidents. The title ‘head of the republic’ is found in Karelia, the Altay Republic, Mordovia, Komi and Kalmykia. Tuva and Khakasia are headed by chairmen of government.