"There's no major destruction, " Chelyabinsk regional Governor Mikhail Yuyevich wrote on his blog.
Political violence has been common: murders of senior figures, such as leading bankers and a regional governor, have rarely been solved.
But the main author of Novgorod's revival has been its regional governor, Mikhail Prusak, 37, the youngest governor in Russia when first appointed by Boris Yeltsin in 1991.
On Thursday, despite an increased security presence in the town, hundreds of people went back onto the streets and surrounded a regional government building and demanded the regional governor resign.
After the resignation of key officials amid a corruption scandal, Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, dismissed the government of Yulia Timoshenko and asked Yuri Yekhanurov, a regional governor, to become prime minster.
The regional governor of Tula, for instance, told a Seventh Day Adventist pastor that if he wanted to rent a lecture-theatre for worship he should ask permission of the local Orthodox priest.
The decision on whether to call a general election will hinge on the outcome of 13 contests for the powerful post of periferiarch (regional governor), the first time in Greece that senior administrators have been directly elected.
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In Peru, the staunchest defender of ALBA and Chavez is Hernan Fuentes, the regional president, or governor, of the province of Puno (please see map to see closeness with Cuzco and neighboring country, Bolivia).
Massachusetts Democratic Governor-elect Deval Patrick wants to rejoin a regional greenhouse gas pact that current Republican Governor Willard (Mitt) Romney spurned.
Despite a constitutional bar against one person being both governor and head of the regional assembly, Mr Yanukovich now has both jobs.
Representatives of the Kurdistan Regional Government, local officials and the Governor of the city of Sulaymaniyah, Behroz Mohammed Salih, in addition to more than 300 residents of the town and surrounding villages.
The idea seems to be to build up an alternative group of regional leaders, based on Dmitri Ayatskov, the governor of Saratov.
His personal style and flair for promotion have attracted nationwide attention to the issue of regional authority and helped to rewrite the role of a governor.
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He digs up a quote from when Romney was governor of Massachusetts, and signed on to a regional cap-and-trade plan to reduce carbon emissions.
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With a key mayoral race in Nago, near Henoko, next January and a governor's race later in the year, regional security might yet have to wait.
It has already prompted California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to abandon his push to expand regional offshore drilling, and caused pressure for U.S. President Barack Obama to suspend his recently announced plans to expand federal offshore drilling.
Before that, she was Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick's homeland security advisor, guiding regional planning and the state's first interoperability plan, and overseeing the National Guard.
Bernie Fraser, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, has even proposed creating a new regional central bank for central bankers, rather like the Bank for International Settlements in Basle.
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