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President Vladimir Putin said that merging some of the country’s regions is justified, but that there should be nothing forced about this process. Speaking at a meeting in Kudymkar, the President recalled the experience of the formerly united Urals Republic that included Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyatsky Autonomous District. Life has since shown that the later division of this republic into two separate regions was not economically justified

October 31, 2003

Mr Putin noted that the planned merger of the Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyatsky Autonomous District was an initiative that came from these two regions themselves.

The purpose of merging the two regions is to create broader opportunities for their economic and social development and increase the effectiveness of the regional and local authorities’ work.

A referendum on the subject will be held on December 7, and if the merger proposal gets the majority of the votes, then the two regions will form a single united region – the Perm Krai – by December 1, 2005.

October 31, 2003

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