According to sources RBC, may 13, head of the Arkhangelsk region and Nenets Autonomous district should make statements about starting the procedure of Association of regions. The relevant statements have to do the acting governors Alexander Cybulski and Yuri Bezdomny.
As specified, the first statement will make the authorities of the NAO. In Naryan-Mar will host a meeting of the governments of both regions, immediately after that will perform Cybulski and Bezdomny. The parties approve a Memorandum of intent to unite the regions. A referendum on this question plan to spend this year.
According to the interlocutor of the edition, such an Association is beneficial not only for Arkhangelsk region, but also the NAO, whose budget is formed mainly from oil and gas revenues and the oil price is low today.