Table 1. FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIVE DISTRICTS | ||
| Designation | Capital | Presidential Representative |
| Central | Moscow | Georgi S. Poltavchenko (career KGB; former presidential representative
of the Leningrad oblast') |
| Northwest | St. Petersburg | Viktor V. Cherkesov (former first deputy director, FSB; lieutenant
general) |
| North Caucasus | Rostov-on-Don | Viktor G. Kazantsev (former commanding officer, North Caucasus
military district; colonel general) |
| Volga | Nizhnyi Novgorod | Sergei V. Kirienko (former prime minister) |
| Urals | Ekaterinburg | Piotr M. Latyshev (former first deputy interior minister; lieutenant
general) |
| Siberia | Novosibirsk | Leonid L. Drachevsky (former CIS affairs minister) |
| Far East | Vladivostok | Konstantin B. Pulikovsky (acting commanding officer, mid-1996, in
Chechnya war; lieutenant general) |
| Source: Andrei Korbut and Dmitri Nikolaev, "Siloviki v regionakh," Novoe voennoe obozrenie, 1925 May 2000, p. 1, which cites the 13 May presidential decree (ukaz), "O pelnomochnom predstavitele prezidenta RF v federal'nom okruge." | ||
| Notes: These seven new administrative districts are identical with the seven current military districts. At the same time, Putin dismissed all presidential representatives to the 89 provinces. Of the seven individuals in the above table, five were either career military/police or KGB/FSB officers. | ||