Recently the EC held a discussion club, which was attended by North Caucasian analysts. It was about the idea to enter the presidential office responsible for the Caucasus http://vestikavkaza.com/analytics/politika/11777.html. Today questions VK responsible Moscow political analyst Alexander Karavayev.
How do you feel about the proposal of the President of Russia to enter the position responsible for the Caucasus? Will the basic problems is the region?
- Frankly, I do not understand the excitement. The President said that he would put an official position, personally responsible for the work of authorities in the Caucasus. 's All. There is no strategy for the region I have not heard, was only a set of phrases that describe the situation. Perhaps such a position could somewhat change the nature of command and administrative control within the new regional strategy for reform. But this strategy yet, and the whole situation looks like an insignificant episode in a separate letter, made possible for the sake of the moment. It seems that the team assistants, prepared this part of the text, used this idea to the needs of specific personnel actions "for today" without any correlation with the development of the situation in the republics. Moreover, it is not clear how this innovation will solve the problems of the region as a whole. Many features of the Caucasus crisis directly repeat the same in the depressed regions of the rest of Russia, only in an intensified form. An example of this - the situation of unemployment, it is almost everywhere on Russia's periphery, people are leaving the center. I agree, the region beyond the stifling shackles of subsidy and deficit economies. But, in my opinion, the root problem is not related to the economy. They are in the field of governance and clean politics. Need to tightly control the distribution channels of funds. Limit the arbitrariness of the authorities on the ground, to curb the influence on the authorities of many relatives. Qualitatively raise the level of training the militia. General, the problem of low competence and high MVD officers of corruption and other local power structures, I would have brought in the first place. There is official, at least partially able to cope with this group prohibitive issues?
- What powers do you think, should have the new head of the Caucasus?
- Theoretically, the maximum possible. However, it is not clear what this position in principle, be different from the post of ambassador to the President in the Southern Federal District. If you think about permanent representative also has a sufficient set of administrative arrangements. However, orders that Kozak that Rapota, local leaders listened to "half an ear." Perhaps the reason for this - lack of credibility. But Kozak hardly be called soft, and Rapota foreign intelligence staff officer, both reported the situation personally to Putin. At the same time everyone realized that say, Kozak can talk openly and publicly very tough, but really to remove this or that person, he can not. All personnel decisions naturally took Putin, but nothing he was not going to change. He did not change even the most odious people like Murat Zyazikov. Thanks to Medvedev, he withdrew it. But is Medvedev has appeared some other control mechanisms, or unexpected new cadres to radically change the style and effectiveness of management region? Therefore, the only proposal on the Northern Caucasus in the message was instructed to develop criteria for the effectiveness of the federal bodies of executive power. That is, simply, display scores and assess republican authorities and their follow-up to decide on the extension or the expiration of an official. This will motivate local officials more dope really miserable achievement.
