Yakutia legislators to vote on republic president`s candidacy

KHABAROVSK, June 17 (Itar-Tass) - Yakutia's parliament will vote on
the candidacy of Boris Yegorov for the post of the republic's president on
Thursday, June 17. Presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District
Viktor Ishayev will formally introduce Boris Yegorov to the legislators.
On June 9, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev nominated Boris for
Yakutia president, in accordance with Article 18 of the federal law on the
general principles of the organization of legislative /representatives/
and executive bodies in the administrative regions of the Russian
Federation and Article 261 of the federal law on political parties.
The other candidates are head of the chief of staff of Yakutia's
president Aisen Nikolayev and aide to the presidential envoy in the
Siberian Federal District Valery Popov.
In late May, President Dmitry Medvedev accepted Vyacheslav Shtyrov's
resignation as Yakutia's leader. Reports said Shtyrov had resigned for
personal circumstances and of his own accord, but no details were provided.
Political analysts believe that the Yakutian parliament will support
Yegorov's candidacy and that the republic will continue to pursue the
policy toward further dynamic development.
Borisov's candidacy was most preferable on the list of three
candidates to Yakutia's top executive post. The list was submitted by the
United Russia party to the president.
Since 2003, Borisov has been "the right hand man" of Yakutia's
president and the republic's Cabinet has vigorously pursued the policy
worked out by Yakutia's administration. Borisov has been among the
developers and ideologists of socio-economic changes and innovations
introduced in the republic during Shtyrov's presidency.
He is regarded as a competent manager, flexible and diplomatic, and
sufficiently open to the mass media and the population.
Borisov, 55, graduated from the Novosibirsk Agricultural Institute as
a certified engineer/mechanic of agricultural production in 1979.
He was born in the village of Churapcha, Yakutia. In 1979 through
1991, he worked at agri-businesses and agricultural machinery and
agriculture management departments. In 1992-1998, he held the posts of
deputy and first deputy prime minister of Yakutia's government. He worked
as the minister of agriculture and procurements and the director of an
agricultural research institute. In February 2002, he was appointed first
deputy prime minister of the republic's government. He has been Yakutia's
prime minister since 2003.