So there is nothing surprising in the fact that the governor of the Tomsk region last week appointed pretty women as acting heads of departments. Vladimir Vladimirovich loves them, understands them and thinks that he can manage them. Will show themselves Anastasia Shevchenko and Tatiana Bugaeva become heads of their departments. But it is not exactly. Tatyana Isakova, for example, remained the head of the state property department. Natalya Radzivil returned to her legal department.
A pattern can be traced: Vladimir Mazur appoints the male candidates recommended to him immediately, but his own female creatures languish a little on a slow fire. Let us recall the appointment of Nikolai Slepnev as deputy governor and head of the representative office of the Tomsk region under the Government of the Russian Federation. Robert Fidarov – head of the regional health department. Vasily Potemkin – Deputy Governor for Investments. There is only one exception – Natalya Kiseleva, the current deputy and chief of staff of the governor, was appointed immediately and irrevocably. But the forces behind her are so great that it was not easy to appoint her as an acting officer. Natalya Kiseleva still keeps a public silence and does not come out of the shadows into the light, although it is already clear that this is a cardinal without any shades of gray.
Another women’s appointment took place this week, and it symbolized the paucity of the current positive information agenda of the authorities. Appointing the chief doctor of a small (albeit symbolically important) interuniversity polyclinic is the level of the head of the regional health department, but not the governor. Moreover, the appointment Marina Musina, who has worked in a polyclinic for almost 15 years, including as a deputy chief physician, is expected, not loud, and does not require the highest administrative support in the field. But an egg is expensive for Christ’s day.
All the grandiose plans with which Vladimir Mazur went to the polls last year have been put on hold. It was proposed to reduce the cost of the interuniversity campus, the third bridge disappeared in the snowfall, two (!) polyclinics promised for some reason before the elections cannot find a place in Green Hills, a multidisciplinary children’s hospital has gone into a design fog, and all this against the backdrop of a threatening federal sequestration, which means and the regional budget. Gas revenues have already fallen, oil revenues are likely to start falling in February. It has already been recognized that for a balanced, deficit-free Russian budget, it would be good to have a price of $115 per barrel of oil, but we have less than $40. Three times less. At the same time, it is extremely dangerous for governors to play an independent game. Offering non-standard solutions in any civilized budgetary industry is fraught with a decrease in KPI in the pharmacy.
The poverty of the information agenda is such that the discussion in the mayor’s office of increasing the fare in minibuses is becoming the main regional news: to increase by two rubles or is it still by one? The creative and financial pre-election fountain has dried up against the backdrop of the traditional January cash gap: taxes and transfers have not yet reached the 2023 budget. Therefore, one has to grab onto any informational occasion in order to somehow replace the main bitter pill of the week in the public mind: the death of the Tom football club. A terrible end is better than a horror without end. The club itself is now selling property, including the team’s famous bus, to pay off at least wage arrears. Specialists scatter and, they say, their level is such that they are in demand in other cities and they are offered salaries twice as high as in Tomsk.
Another page of Tomsk football of the highest standard is turned over, and for some reason Jim Morisson and his immortal now come to mind: “Th the end of a beautiful friend”.
Th the end.
