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226 Elena Denezhkina and Adrian Campbellbe upset following his arrest. Tsiganov was released and the group continued itsoperations but in a more discreet fashion. Panpurin, it later turned out, was infact one of the leading members of OPS Uralmash.45 Uralsky Rabochy, 28 December 1999.46 See ‘Chisto ural'skiye umel'tsi’, Vesti.ru, 12 November 1999.47 Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 11 June 1999.48 See, for example, the profile of Kukovyakin in Revizor, No. 6, June–July 2003.49 Conversations with regional officials, 2002. In the end it was not Khabarov, butPorunov, the mayor’s ally who had previously been chair of the Oblast Duma,who replaced Silin following a cooling of relations between Silin and Chernetsky.50 Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 10 July 2003.51 Some considered Bakov to be not only a ‘scandalously known businessman’ butalso ‘rumoured to be close to criminal groups’.52 Anton Bakov ‘Ne mogu molchat'’, http://www.bakov.ru/nemogu.shtml.53 A video tape was broadcast, showing Gabinsky in the City Duma apparentlyasking OPS Uralmash Kukovyakin for financial support for his campaign, withoutrealizing the microphone was switched on. The end to his campaign wasreportedly brought about by Anton Bakov using federal connections to have hisrating in the Party of Life lowered, therefore undermining his campaign stance ofbeing a substantial political figure.54 Uralsky rabochy, 11 December 2003.55 Oblastnaya Gazeta, 16 December 2003.56 Kommersant, 19 December 2003.57 ‘Ekaterinburg – na smenu’, Narodnaya Volya, No. 25 (72), 13 December 2003.Yuri Osintsev, ‘Razgovor po Kuschesvu’ (Manifesto).58 Oblastnaya Gazeta, 9 December 2003.59 Oblastnaya Gazeta, 16 December 2003.60 Vecherny Ekaterinburg, 15 December 2003.61 Kommersant, 18 December 2003.62 Ekaterinburgskaya Nedelya, No. 52 (512), 25 December 2003.63 Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 23 December 2003.64 ‘Sto millionov tuda, sto syuda: i vse iz byudjeta’, 4 December 2003. Reproducedon http://www.compromat.ru/main/rossel/chernetskij1000.htm.65 Delovoi Ural, 48 (553), 23 December 2003.66 Kommersant, 23 December 2003.67 Ekaterinburgskaya Nedelya, No. 52 (512), 25 December 2003.68 Delovoi Ural, No. 48 (553), 23 December 2003.69 In December 2002 Khabarov had formally disbanded OPS Uralmash, although itclearly continued its existence and Khabarov was routinely referred to as the headof ex-Uralmash.70 http://www.uralpolit.ru, 16 September 2004.71 The symbol of United Russia is a bear.72 Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 29 April 2004, 2 August 2004.73 http;www.ura.ru/print/news/2590074 Conversations with Ekaterinburg city officials, June 2007.75 Zakat, ‘koprporatsiya Ekaterinburg’: u Arkadi Chernetskovo ‘prokhudiloskrysha’. http://www.lenta66.ru/politic/2007/06/26/40-67.76 In Russian governance there is some reticence about publicly firing senior officials.Instead they go ‘of their own volition’, typically after being put in a positionwhere this is the logical outcome.77 ‘Gubernatorsky pasience: chevo hochet Kreml?’, http://www.golossamara.ru/politics/2007/08/28/380278 ‘O chem. Chernetski dogovorilsya s Surkovym – detali vstrechi’, http://www.lenta66.ru/politic/2007/08/16/6142 http://www.nr2.ru/ekb/139839.html.