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Law Signed to Form Transbaikal Territory
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the federal constitutional law “On the Formation within the Russian Federation of a New Subject of the Russian Federation as a Result of the Unification of Chita Region and the Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area.” The State Duma passed the law on July 5 of this year and the Federation Council approved it on July 11.
The new territory will be created on March 1, 2008. There will be a transition period through 2010 during which local bodies of authority will be formed. The Russian president must nominate the territory's governor no later than 35 days before it is formed. On October 12, 2008, elections will be held for members of the new territory's legislative assembly.
A referendum was held in Chita Region and Agin-Buryat Autonomous Area at the beginning of May of this year in which over 90 percent of voters supported the unification of the two subjects of the federation. This is the second new formation to come from the policy of reinforcing the regions. Perm Territory was formed from Perm Region and Komi-Permyak Autonomous Area. Soon, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Taimyr and Evenkia will be unified. Then Kamchatka Region and Koryakia will be reformed into a single unit, as will Irkutsk Region and Ust-Ordynsky Buryat Autonomous Area.
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Photo: Alexander Miridonov
