The interview was conducted by Lieutenant Colonel Yuri SELEZNEV, permanent correspondent of the magazine "Landmark" in the North Caucasus military District Alexander Leonidovich Chernogorov, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, was born on July 13, 1959 in the village of Vozdvizhenskoye in the Apanasensky district of Stavropol. He graduated with honors from the Kuban Agricultural Institute, and later from the Russian Academy of Management. Candidate of Legal Sciences, member of the Moscow Club of Lawyers. He was the first secretary of the regional Komsomol committee. In the early nineties, he was a teacher of state and legal disciplines at the university. In 1991, he was elected a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and in the fall of 1996-Governor of Smavropolsky Krai. He has a military rank: Colonel of the reserve. Master of Sports in military-applied all-around, winner of the Russian Championship. He is married and has a daughter. - Alexander Leonidovich, judging by the press, your activity as governor of the region attracts the attention of not only Stavropol residents. You have both supporters and opponents... "Yes, it is. By the will of fate, or rather, due to the geographical and geopolitical position of our region, the most tight knots of political, interethnic, economic problems and contradictions are now tied here. Therefore, it is not surprising that our territories have become a place of clash of views and opinions of various social movements and political structures. It's natural. What is more important is that the diversity of opinions does not become a brake on the positive trends that have begun to manifest themselves in the economy, political and cultural spheres of the region's life. The fact that there are such changes is also confirmed by the increased interest in us from a number of well-known international organization ... Читать далее