It wrests power from the central government, slashes bureaucratic overlap, and gives leaders like him more power to make decisions what Mr Asada says the mayor really means when he talks of dictatorship.
Many of those now occupying positions of power in the Kremlin, and in the top levels of Russian business - the two often overlap - are believed to have been KGB agents.
Confusion persists over who is in command of a country where the armed forces are used to wielding power, where Islamist fundamentalists pounce on any sign of weakness towards India over Kashmir and where the two groups sometimes overlap.