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Putin Signs Law Allowing Him to Pick Governors
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Apr 03, 2013 12:05pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 2, 2013 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Tuesday letting him pick candidates to lead the country's regions if local lawmakers scrap popular polls, in what critics called a setback for democracy in the Putin's new term.
The law allows each of the country's 83 regions to repeal direct elections of governors, introduced just last year in a concession during a wave of protests by Russians fed up with Putin's dominance and demanding a stronger political voice.
Putin has said the law is needed to protect the rights of minorities in ethnically mixed regions such as the mostly Muslim provinces of the insurgency-plagued North Caucasus. |
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