] Among Putin's reforms announced Monday: the country's 89 ] regional governors will no longer be elected by popular ] vote. Instead, he will appoint them and regional ] assemblies would approve the appointments. ] ] He also announced on Monday that seats in the Duma ] (Russia's national parliament) allocated to single-member ] constituencies will be replaced with a fully proportional ] system. The move "could see the few remaining independent ] voices forced out of the federal parliament" Puntin uses school attacks to cripple democracy in Russia. |