St. Petersburg Politics: Putin Backs Matvienko for a Second Term

Author(s): Daniel Tsygankov
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 12
Pages: 11-13
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2006

With an eye to the 2007 parliamentary and 2008 presidential elections, President Vladimir Putin recently appointed Valentina Matvienko as governor of St. Petersburg for a second term. Depending on her future actions, Matvienko will have an important impact on the fate of Russia's two competing parties of power, United Russian and Just Russia. During her first term, she concentrated on establishing control over the city's political resources, attracting wealthy tax payers to fill city coffers, and bringing in foreign investors.

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