The Kremlin rating of governors, 2016

The article analyzes the factors that in the short term will affect the rotation in the system of regional executive power. «The Kremlin rating» suggests a possible rotation of governors by more than 30% in the period until the summer of 2017 and more than 50% - until the end of 2017. An important factor is presidential elections: will they be early elections, who would be the major candidate, what real support of the population will they have. On these parameters, the principles of consolidation of regional elites will depend.