President Dmitry Medvedev sprung a surprise...
Medvedev said literally this: "A third term is something serious that needs to be filled to the best of your ability, because a fourth term is an exception. We will now be working to free vacancies for younger people. So the third term is the time to show your best."
None of the regions currently have legislated term limits. Nor are term lengths consistent from region to region, some with four years, others five. Eduard Rossel, the former Sverdlovsk governor, proposed a six-year term, but could never take advantage of this having lost his seat. Also, there were two overhauls of the relevant legislative framework.
Originally, some regions, 24 to be exact, had term limits but no law to back them. In October 1999, the State Duma adopted a law on the general principles guiding the administration of legislative and executive bodies in the constituent members of the Russian Federation. The result was that many regional and republican governors appeared to be serving their second
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