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A few days ago an entry appeared listing the 31 candidates to replace Misha Saakshvili as Governor of Odessa, and within which made brief observation of the most suitable (and unsuitable) applicants.
After tests, situational tasks, and interviews a winner has emerged.
Maxim Stepanov scored the most points and is now awaiting presidential appointment.
Naturally Maxim Stepanov is not Misha Saakashvili and most readers will have never even heard of him. The international media are unlikely to be beating down his door for an interview either.
So a few lines about Mr Stepanov.
He is 42, graduated from Donetsk State Medical University in the late 1990s and then further studied International Economics at Kyiv National Economic University, completing his studies in 2004.
He has worked in both the private and public sector. His early public sector resume consists of roles within energy.
The last decade has been spent thus; 2003/04 – Deputy Chairman of the State Tax Authority. 2004 -08, Chairman of the National Legal Union. 2008-10 Mr Stepanov was the First Deputy Head of the Odessa Regional Administration, thereafter Viktor Yanukovych came to power and he was banished from political life and exiled in a purely civil service role as the Director of Ukraine Printing Plant – the entity charged with producing passports, driving licences et al. – where he has sat ever since.
Clearly Mr Stepanov is a man well versed in Ukrainian bureaucracy and not indifferent to the politics of Odessa having previously spent 2 years within the Odessa Regional Administration. Thus the tedious, systematic, boring and predictable work of a governor will no doubt be well within his grasp.
It now falls to President Poroshenko to appoint him and bring him in from political exile to fill the most senior civil service role in the oblast.
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