After the collapse of the USSR one of the most serious problems with which the Russian Federation is faced is how to regulate its centrifugal force such as “Ural Republic” and “Republic of Primorye”. This article seeks to be a case study of “Primorye krai”.
When there was a coup d'etat and the State Committee declared a state of emergency in August 1991, movements against the State Committee and the support of the President of Russian Federation Yeltsin were growing stronger in Primorye krai, being an administrative territorial unit of the Russian Federation. After August 1991, Chairman of Excutive Committee of Soviet V. Kuznetsov, an ex-vice-director of Institute of Academy of Sciences, was appointed as newly established Chief of local Administration by Yeltsin. It seemed that his position in regional politics may be improved, since his rival Golovidin, Chairman of the Soviet, former first secretary of the local communist party, was dismissed from his post because he did not organize the anti-State-Committee movement.
But the oppsition groups were still in power in the Soviet and they criticized the Chief of Administration for his measures taken in 1992. The greater part of these criticisms concentrated on the failure of economic policies and the lack of competent government officials to deal with the situation. Finally on March 1993 the general meeting of the Soviet decided that the report of Kuznetsov was not perfect. A letter demanding Kuznetsov should be dismissed was sent to President Yeltsin and in May the proposal was agreed to. The President recommended Nazdrachenko, a director of a business enterprise, as the successor, which was accepted by the Soviet.
The government of Kuznetsov in Primorye krai fell down after continuing for three years. The fact that many “academic governments” in Russia during the period, shows they had something in common with each other. The reasons for Kuznetsov were as follows:
1) He failed to organize the experienced staff who worked efficiently in his government. 2) At first he was elected as Chairman of the Excutive Committee of the Soviet and the position was strongly influenced by the Soviet and its Chairman. But later he was appointed as Chief of Administration by the President, which changed his status. He became independent of the Soviet and its Chairmen. The relationship between the Chief of Administration and the Chairman of the Soviet was not legally clear-cut, which caused many kinds of troubles over power. 3) He tried too hard and rapidly to improve the economic situation by building up relationships with foreign countries. It turned out, however, that the international contacts led to the rapid increase in crime rate and political corruption, which provoked criticism from the opposition groups. Lastly, Kuznetsov, who was a leader “from Moscow”, did not have an enough footing to rule in his own “Krai”.
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