The assumption is that the announced merger of Arkhangelsk region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) in a single entity will launch a campaign for the enlargement of a number of regions of Russia, not true. As told TASS source in the Russian presidential administration, the question in the Kremlin is not considered.
The acting heads of the Arkhangelsk region and Nenets Autonomous region Alexander Cybulski and Yuri Bezdolnyi was signed on Wednesday in Naryan-Mar the Memorandum "the intention of education of the new subject of the Russian Federation by the enterprises of the Arkhangelsk region and Nenets Autonomous district." This decision, a number of experts and journalists regarded as the beginning of a series of changes in other regions that also allegedly can go through the merge process.
"Assumptions about the beginning of this campaign in a number of regions – it is nonsense", – said the Agency interlocutor. "the theme of integration of regions on the agenda of the Kremlin, no," he said.
the Plans for the Arkhangelsk region and NAO
Bezdomny called one of the reasons for the signing of the Memorandum of the disastrous state of the budget of the NAO. The budget of the region calculated from the oil price of 57 dollars per barrel, and nearly half of revenues today, falls, and social commitments to the people you want to run, he said.
The CEC of Russia said that the law provides for the holding of a referendum in the Arkhangelsk region and NAO before combining these subjects. The vote could take place in September 2020.
According to Tsybulsky, in the case of the consent of the participants in the unification process could last more than a year, because it will require a transitional period to harmonize the economic and legal bases of the two regions. The question of the future name of the subject of the Russian Federation will also decide residents.
Nenets Autonomous Okrug is an independent subject of the Russian Federation, but, according to the Charter of the Arkhangelsk region, it is also part of the Arkhangelsk region.
On 2 April the President of Russia Vladimir Putin has accepted the resignation of the Governor of Arkhangelsk region Igor Orlov and Tsybulsky was appointed acting head of the region, before he headed NAO. The acting head of the NAO was appointed Bezdomny.
the Merge regions in the history of modern Russia
The RF Constitution of 12 December 1993 consolidated Federal structure of the state consisting of 89 regions. Since in Russia there were five cases of merging entities. The process took place in 2003-2008.
During this period saw the merger of Perm oblast and Komi-Permyatskiy AO in Perm Krai, the merger of Krasnoyarsk territory, Taimyr and Evenkia, the unification of the Kamchatka region and the Koryak Okrug in Kamchatka Krai, the merger of Irkutsk region and Ust-Orda Buryat AO, and the merger of Chita oblast and Agin-Buryat Autonomous in Zabaykalsky Krai.
In the resultsthese the total number of the Russian regions decreased from 89 to 83 in 2008. After the reunification of Crimea and Sevastopol with Russia in 2014, the number of subjects of the Russian Federation increased to 85.
The theme of the consolidation of regions for many years periodically appears in the press, despite the fact that the authorities of the Russian Federation at the Federal level have repeatedly talked about the lack of government plans of this kind. In particular, at the end of 2017, Putin once again stated that such matters cannot be imposed from above, and require a thorough analysis at the level of the subjects themselves.
