Abstract

Russia's regionalization is the response to the collective stress brought about by Yeltsin's “shock therapy”. The kind of the regional development strongly depends on the self-confirmation of regional political leadership. In a show of their potential for adaptation and self-improvement, the provincial power groups have begun mobilizing their own political resources. This resources promoting local symbols and improving programs for regional development. One of the most important factor of regional political life is creation of local political party on the basis of mass political mobilization.
Krasnodar krai has something unusual about its economic geography: it contains two sharply differentiated sub-regional economies-the rural heartland that has traditionally been Russia's strongest agricultural region and the narrow coastal strip that contains two substantial ports, Novorossiisk and Tuapse, and the Sochi-Adler resort area. As a result of the collapse of the USSR, Krasnodar has become more important as a frontier territory-it is now Russia's southern maritime gateway. Krasnodar krai has narrowly avoided becoming an area of large-scale political and military turmoil. In 1991 Chechen's leader General Dudaev advanced the idea of a Caucasus Union: the Chechen Revolution was regarded by him as the start of a domino effect: the final aim of radical nationalist ideologists was to create a Greater Caucasus state under the leadership of Chechnya. They even proposed an expansion of the Caucasus Mountains Peoples' Confederation to include Krasnodar krai, with the aim of re-creating“Greater Shapsugia”. The rhetoric might perhaps be seen as no more than a cover for a practical objective of the Chechen leadership: to gain access to the Black Sea. In Krasnodar the regional leadership has been traditionalist and nationalist in character. Nikolai Kondratenko, who is governor now has been in past since December 1996. His pronouncements have been extreme to the point of dottiness. Also Kondratenko launched a remarkable attack on past privatization in the region and called for the reconsideration of a number of cases. Governor Kondratenko is best orator using bright and bizarre rhetoric. He is charismatic leader. He is represent as a defender and protector for ordinary Kuban's people from destructive Eltsin's market reforms. This regional mass support took place in context of escalation of the conflict with the former President Eltsin government. He has claimed that Eltsin and his government is enemy of Russian people. In early August 1998, he told a meeting of Kuban's dignitaries that poisoned food was being send to the region. The poisons were produced in the USA and the organization of the food supplies was undertaken by“world Zionism”. Kondratenko similar to Fidel' Castro-leader of Kuba's revolution and Ayatolla Homeini-leader of Iranian revolution.