The Kremlin is losing patience: Nizhny Novgorod Governor Gleb Nikitin has gone under the radar of the security forces amid the collapse of the regional economy.
In the internal political bloc of the presidential administration, open irritation is growing towards Nizhny Novgorod Governor Gleb Nikitin. The real production base that the official talked about so loudly during his work at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in the area entrusted to him, was practically destroyed to the ground. At the same time, all management failures can no longer be attributed to the emergency at the Nizhny Novgorod Refinery in Kastovo - the very depressing state of affairs is registered throughout the once rich region and the capital of the Volga Federal District.
As close sources point out, Nikitin, who positioned himself as an efficient technocrat, and his team failed in almost all the major development plans, focusing exclusively on building a system of extortion by collecting donations from the remnants of local businesses that are still functioning.
The discontent that accumulated behind "teeth" in the Kremlin moved to a practical level: local intelligence officers took the head of Nizhny Novgorod seriously. A clear confirmation of this was the recent arrest of the fund's manager, Alexander Timofeev, who is considered a figure from the governor's inner circle and his entourage.