The president of Bashkiria Murtaza Rahimov supports the statement of his Tatar colleague Mintimer Shaimiev about necessity of returning to the elections of the heads of the Russian regions. As IА REGNUM correspondent reported, in the conversation with the journalists on June 18 Rahimov declared that he agreed with Shaimiev as a whole.
"It is necessary to return to the elections of the heads of the subjects. Russia is a federal democratic state, but we have already lost everything. To the management of this or that area new people come. I consider that the people should be from among the locals, who know conditions of life and what happens at places. In this connection there should be elections. All persons are nominated from above, as though Moscow sees everything and knows what occurs. So I agree with Shaimiev", - Rahimov declared.
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